The Grizzly Bear Tools (GBtools) are a series of geoprocessing tools developed by fRI for use with ESRI’s ArcInfo/Advanced GIS software package, with the Spatial Analyst extension, that are intended to assist in analyzing grizzly bear habitat and to help inform decision making in support of grizzly bear conservation.
The first version of the tools were delivered in Spring 2007 and can be used to:
- update habitat maps to maintain their currency in a rapidly changing landscape;
- forecast the effect of a development scenario on habitat quality; and
- compare quantitatively, the relative impact of multiple scenarios.
Along with being used by the Grizzly Bear Program at fRI, the tools and data are also shared with contributing partners, allowing them to input their own scenarios for analysis.