As part of two outdoors site visits, the Forest Stewardship Program lent everyone in the class a good set of basic forester tools to later use on our own land. Already packed into pockets of a fluorescent orange safety vest, the following tools were loaned out:
Google Earth is just plain cool. I am now able to overlay my site map directly into Google Earth via a personalized image overlay. By doing this I can view all of the site locations relative to everything around it and the underlying satellite photo landmarks. More importantly, I can tilt, pan, and...
The detail available from free online satellite imagery is getting progressively more amazing. Google Earth (www.google.com/earth) first raised the bar with its integration of aerial photography onto 3D...
The idea of a driveway became a bit more tangible today. After buying a roll of bright yellow flagging tape at a local hardware store, we walked the length of the existing old logging road into the property. We bushwhacked its length while looking for the best entry curve and minimization of...
The Forest Stewardship Site Plan is a map of our property that includes both current and future projected forest/usage characteristics. It's one of the more important parts of a Forest Stewardship Plan since it tells a story and includes lots of information at a quick glance. I used Adobe...