July 16, 2014 2:06 pm Leave your thoughts
Today, I just about drove into the back of a moose while quadding; I guess he just didn’t hear me coming. This sighting puts the total to 5 moose, 8 bears, 2 elk, countless deer, and hundreds of tracks from other animals (including wolf, lynx, fox and coyote) that I have encountered. I was hoping to hold off on this blog post until I got an actual picture of an animal,
July 16, 2014 1:21 pm Leave your thoughts
The tree plant is going very well, and I have been working very hard for the past couple weeks. Checking trees can be very physically demanding, because you have to walk all day in the summer heat and get to at least 40 plots in for the day. The most plots I have gotten to is around 70 plots in one day.
July 15, 2014 4:11 pm Leave your thoughts
One of the greatest parts about this internship has been the range of different parts of the forestry sector that I have had the opportunity to gain experience in. For the most part I have been spending time in the silviculture department, which handles the task of returning the log site to the way it once was. It is essentially the end stage of the logging process.
July 11, 2014 9:21 am Leave your thoughts
Hello everyone, what a busy past few weeks! I just finished a project that I have been working on for quite some time. My job was to create an energy monitoring screen that shows the current conditions of what is going on in a particular area of the mill. Like any sophisticated computer program, the learning curve was steep, but once I got the hang of using MOPS it was a breeze to create new components and edit existing ones whenever necessary.
July 9, 2014 11:30 am Leave your thoughts
Sustainability is an issue that the entire world is grappling with. The term pops up everywhere in our society, including the world of forestry. How to even define what the word means changes with the passage of time; thereby, changing how it is that we are able to achieve the idea. During the late 80s and early 90s, numerous conferences and protests were attended all over the world to determine what sustainability would mean to our economy,