August 12, 2019 3:45 pm 1 Comment
Welcome to the fifth and final installment of my Green Dream blog. My original intention for this blog was to showcase some 3D visualizations in Esri’s ArcGIS Pro, but, I can’t seem to get my computer to cooperate.
Instead, I’d like to recap some of the adventures I’ve had this summer in Prince George and the surrounding area.
August 12, 2019 3:27 pm Leave your thoughts
With the summer quickly coming to an end (less than a month and I will be back in the classroom), I’ve decided that it’s time to do a blog looking back at some of the wildlife that I’ve been fortunate enough to observe this summer. Anyone who lives in small town or rural Alberta surely gets to see some wild animals.
August 12, 2019 3:05 pm 1 Comment
Here we are, approaching the end of the summer and I’m getting sentimental. I have learned a lot about what it really means to work in forestry, and its safe to say that I really enjoy it. I got to explore an area roughly the size of Latvia (I checked in Arcmap), and even though I didn’t see all of it,
August 9, 2019 2:54 pm Leave your thoughts
The marsh called Edson is actually starting to fade away now. There is still heavy rain (and hail) every now and then, but it is finally starting to clear up. Neil’s rain dance spell is fading away! It only lasted two whole months. Last year, there was nowhere near that amount of rain. It was overly dry if anything. I suppose that’s what we get for living in the area.
July 30, 2019 9:22 am Leave your thoughts
I am keeping this blog short and sweet, as the title says, because I will be on vacation. When I return however, I will give tips and tricks for the berry foraging season that will be in full peak. Especially in blueberries in old cutblocks that have just started to become edible. Pictured above are wild strawberries (left) picked on along a winter road I was inspecting crossings on.
July 26, 2019 11:21 am Leave your thoughts
Hello readers,
There has been a change of plans since I last checked in. My schedule has been changed a bit due to an alteration in the tree planting plans. As Tina, my supervisor, says silviculture is all about going with the flow so we shall see when I flow into the tree plant.
Instead,
July 26, 2019 11:15 am Leave your thoughts
Why was the tree stumped?
It couldn’t get to the root of the problem.
Hello reader – welcome to my fourth Green Dream Job Blog. In this instalment, I’m going to discuss how mobile data collection is changing field operations.
When I started working with Canfor, I was excited to learn that my department has a team devoted to the construction and deployment of mobile applications for data collection.
July 24, 2019 3:55 pm Leave your thoughts
By Arianna Loogman, July 23rd, 2019
I can’t believe that it’s already time for another blog, but I’m super excited to share this one! Every summer student watches as their four months off school race by, the work week goes by fast and the weekends even faster. You think that you will have free time,
July 23, 2019 2:37 pm Leave your thoughts
After completion of the Shuswap/Okanagan railway in 1892 the entirety of Armstrong was a lone box car, a home for the rail agent. One early settler remarked, “Apart from the box car there was just willows and swamp”. The Cariboo gold rush launched European settlement around Armstrong with Miners and Missionaries passing through on their way up North. Innovative farmers drained the swamplands and exposed fertile black soil ideal for vegetable production.
July 23, 2019 9:57 am Leave your thoughts
Look at the beauty I found! During my inspections I have to get off my quad to look for safe ways around berms, floods, or washouts. On the day this photo was taken, I walked a path around a flooded/beaver dammed area looking for access to the rest of the road. While I was unsuccessful in finding the road, I did find many giant champion trees in that area including this massive Balsam Poplar pictured above.
July 23, 2019 9:52 am Leave your thoughts
Just recently I passed my one-year anniversary of writing in a journal. If I’m being honest, I’m not sure if it’s really a journal because I record my thoughts in feelings in it so maybe that makes it a diary (this mildly offends my rugged masculinity) . The entries I’ve had in my “journal” largely reflect the undertones that I’ve had in my blog.
July 22, 2019 10:40 am 1 Comment
I woke up to the morning sunlight showering into my home, warming my chilled face. I yawned slowly and stretched hard, shaking my body. I didn’t want to be up this early. I could hear my children beginning to stir from their slumbers and I knew that sleeping in is not an option with 2 under 2. I wandered over to my babies to be surprised with kisses and cuddles.
July 16, 2019 11:30 am Leave your thoughts
Unfortunately for the last several weeks, the heavens have decided to turn Edson into a marsh. I have brought up my hiking shoes this time, but I suspect that even they would get extremely soaked and/or destroyed by the crazy weather. My coworker Neil, one of the electricians, did a mock rain dance when the weather was hot and dry –
July 15, 2019 11:04 am Leave your thoughts
For this blog I thought I’d share a bit about my hometown of Peace River, a beautiful northern community that depends on forestry to employ many people and support the local economy. If I do a really, really good job maybe you’ll pack your bags and move here, but my goal is just to put my town on your radar.
July 9, 2019 11:09 am 2 Comments
Welcome back, dear reader. In this instalment, I’m going to share my understanding of LiDAR technology, and further delve into how it can inform forestry practices.
What is LiDAR technology?
LiDAR, or Light Detection And Ranging, is a remote sensing method that uses pulses of laser light to measure distances to the earth’s surface,