PROTECTING BEVERLY AND QAMANIRJUAQ CARIBOU
AND CARIBOU RANGE

Intro to Part 2: Map Atlas and Documentation

In 1996, the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board took steps to research and map out the most important habitats of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq ranges, in light of growing mineral exploration and other industrial developments in Canada's North. The result was the report, Protecting Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou and Caribou Range, published in January 1999 and a CD-ROM, Protecting Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou and Caribou Range. Part 2: Map Atlas and Documentation, released in 2000.

The production of the original CD-ROM was made possible thanks to:

• the financial assistance of the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board

• in-kind support provided by the Department of Resources, Wildlife, and Economic Development, Government of the Northwest Territories.

Usage and viewing tips

You need Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.01 (or higher) to read the Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf) files on this part of the website. All the files in the Report section (Part 1) and the maps in the Map Atlas (Part 2) are .pdf files. Click here to download the Acrobat Reader for Mac or Windows.

Helpful Hints:

You can navigate through this part of the website by using the TABLE OF CONTENTS page.

Go back to any previous page by clicking on the "BACK" button of the browser while viewing text or maps.

Use the navigation bar found at the left of the first page of each section to move between sections.

Click on the INTRO PAGE link to go back to the introductory or "home" page of the CD-ROM.

How to set up your screen display for best results:

The colour images (maps and photographs) on this site look best on a monitor (screen) that shows "thousands" of colours. Use a monitor that shows 1024 pixels by 768 lines to view the best quality images of the maps.

However, the pages will work on almost any computer with a screen resolution of at least 800 pixels by 600 lines with 256 colors.

To check your display settings do the following:

On a PC (with Windows 95 or Windows NT): Click on Start \ Settings \ Control Panel \ Display.

Then select the "settings tab" and look at the values for "Color Palette" and "Desktop Area".

Color Palette should be 256 or greater.

Desktop Area should be 800 by 600 pixels or larger.

On a Mac (with OS 8 or 9): Under the Apple, go to Control Panel, and then Monitors.

Look at the values for "Color depth" and "Resolution":

Color depth should be 256 or greater.

Resolution should be 800 x 600 or larger.

Viewing pages:

You must scroll down through most of the pages on this site because they are longer than the height of your monitor. Most of the main pages contain photographs that separate sections of text, so you must scroll down past these images to view text that follows.

You should experiment with the "zoom" settings on Acrobat Reader to find the display size that is optimal for viewing maps (Part 2) and sections of the report (Part 1) on your computer. The best zoom factor will depend on the resolution and size of your monitor.

Why did we use Acrobat files?

As with most tasks done using a computer, there are a variety of ways of presenting maps. Maps by their very nature contain many finely drawn lines. Using Acrobat files to present these maps preserves as much detail as possible. The maps can be printed on almost any printer (colour or black-and-white) and viewed on almost any computer.

The quality of the display device (monitor or printer) determines how well you can see the map content. If you have a low quality display device, you will see low quality maps. However, if you have a colour printer or high quality monitor, you will be able to see more detail in the maps. You can see some of this detail even on a low quality display by "zooming" maps to show a small area.

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