Zoning of Dorfak Non-Hunting Area Using GIS

In this study zoning for management plan of Dorfak Non-Hunting Area (37899 ha. North of Iran) has been implemented.First ecological and socio-economic resources were surveyed and mapped (scale 1:25000). Then data analysis and integration using Arcinfo workstation (ver.9) and arcview GIS (Ver.3.3) with system analysis approach were performed. As a result 8817 micro-ecosystem were mapped. Ecological capability of Mapping Unit (MU) was evaluated for: restricted nature reserve, protected, area, extensive use, intensive use, recovery, Special use, culture-historical and domestic zones, with the aid of specified ecological park management model. Finally with coordination of socio-economic data and ecological capability of MU, priority, ranking and arrangements of zones were mapped. The results show that %23.6 of allocated zones is suitable for restricted nature reserve zone, %.5 for conditional strict nature reserve, %45.2 for protected area zone, %.3 for protected and historical zone, %8.7 for protected and recovery zone, %5 for recovery zone, %.04 for Intensive use zone, %8.8 for Extensive use zone, %0.11 for domestic use zone, %0.38 for culture-historical zone and %5.69 for buffer zone (with protected area & rehabilitation zones).