The 3D capabilities of JMU will generate a smile.  You will spend countless hours exploring your unit and other units nearby using JMU.  Explore wilderness areas from the comfort of your desk chair or plot a new route into the backcountry.   

We used the Grand Lake area to create 3 sample JMU fly through demonstrations.  In the software, you could move left, right, up, and down in the landscape.

The first demonstration is model generated using Elk Concentration Maps.  Each JMU package comes with a Topo base map and Summer, Winter, and Spring elk concentration areas. 

The demo begins at the South end of Granby Reservoir and proceeds North through Grand Lake and up through the edge of Rocky Mountain National Park.  The video then banks West, heads across the valley and circles back to the head of the Reservoir. 

In the first video, the red cross-hatch overlays represent summer elk concentrations.  The yellow lines represent Spring concentrations, and the blue lines represent the winter concentration areas.   On some maps there are also resident herd overlays. 

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The second video depicts the landscape with Land Ownership data.  Green represents National Forest, Dark Green represents Wilderness, gold is BLM, white is private and Blue is State Land.   As you move up the valley the purple area represents Rocky Mountain National Park. 

 In addition to the land ownership colors, notice the campgrounds and road numbers clearly marked.  These maps are great for hunting!

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Now for the “Wow”.  Satellite images are proliferating on the internet.  Google, NASA, and USGS offer easy to access satellite images of the whole world.  But, they are just photos and they don’t help much with hunting.  We thought, “why not use the satellite images to create a realistic landscape of a hunting unit, complete with GMU boundaries?” We did it with JMU.  At HuntData we’ve logged more hours exploring our favorite units using the satellite images that we care to account for.  You will to.  This is great, off-season fun with a real-life hunting benefit.  Learn the landscape of your unit in ways never before possible.  Learn new areas before even setting foot in the unit.   

Here’s the video, using the same area around Grand Lake, Colorado:

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And speaking of fun, we couldn’t resist.   At HuntData we fish as well as hunt.  So, in the middle of creating JMU we were distracted with the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.  One afternoon Dave created this fly through.   The fly-through depicts the approach to the Black Canyon from the North and moves through most of the Canyon.   Just for fun, Just My Unit!

The 3DEM modeling software can create video output using your GPS route.  The Program will create .avi or .mpeg fly through movies to mail to your hunting buddies.   Any of the four maps can be used to create the 3D worlds and movies.

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