This map was part of a lab for my Intro to GIS course. We were given a point where a dead bird was found on the UMass campus. This bird caused concern over the possibility of a mosquito-borne illness spreading through local wildlife, so our task was to create a map showing where pesicides could be sprayed to prevent the spread of this illness while preventing damage to wetland ecosystems.

To make this project, I:

• loaded in given vector data on the location of a found dead bird on the UMass campus as well as the roads and wetlands in the area

• created a 2 km buffer around the dead bird point where spraying of pesticides might occur

• created a buffer around the roads of the distance a pesticide sprayer could reach and then clipped the buffer to the first buffer around the dead bird

• Created a buffer around wetlands in the area where pesticides are not permitted and erased this area from the road buffer

• The remaining part of the road buffer, shown in green, is the area that could potentially be treated with pesticides

• Created a layout and added a north arrow, legend, and scale bar