The demands for better management of natural resources require management of spatial data
and information. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) refer to the broad collection of
Information Management Techniques, which store and analyze such information to contribute to
the needs for planning and resource management. The use of GIS has produced remarkable
changes in the way and rate at which georeferenced data are produced, updated, analyzed and
disseminated, making production and analysis of geographic information very efficient.
Furthermore, it is characterized by diversity of applications and can be effectively used in urban
planning, natural resource management, query of species on the verge of extinction, selection of
suitable species for afforestation, wood supply simulation, fire control management, monitoring
fire decline, forest road designing, tourism development and other land use fields (e.g. land
resource mapping and land use changes). In the past three decades, this potential has led to
rapid developments in both theory and technology resulting in increasing technical capabilities
and decreasing hardware and software costs. This paper focuses on implementation of GIS in
forest science. In conclusion, GIS is an extremely powerful tool in proper management of both
public and private sector organizations and is very profitable or timesaving in situations with
high risks where the scale is suitable, where there is creativity, and where identical procedures
are used repeatedly.