June 25, 2013 3:42 pm
So much has gone on recently! I have been given some interesting projects – for example, making -center lines on old and new forestry roads. As you might just guess, a center line marks where the center of a road is or will be, and is an important part of the blueprint for road building, maintenance and reclamation.
After I received this assignment,
May 22, 2013 1:14 pm
Now that I have had a better feel with how things are being done around here, I have had the cool experience of using ArcPad. It is what it kind of sounds like: it’s ArcMap, but on a tablet, and can be used in the field. For those of you who are not familiar with ArcMap, it’s a processing program that allows you to explore geographic data and create maps.
May 20, 2013 1:02 pm
These past two weekends were almost polar opposites of each other. The first weekend, I was sick and stayed in bed, to make sure I was OK for work. This weekend, the long weekend, I wanted to go see a mountain, because I had never seen a mountain before. So, I headed up to Jasper National Park and went to Athabasca Falls,
May 19, 2013 1:08 pm
I’m Kyle Waterman, and I was born and raised in southern Ontario and lived most of my life in the city of Peterborough. I lived there till I hit high school then moved to a small town of Havelock where I learned most of my forestry practice through a very cool program that, over 3 years, taught me how to fell trees,