23 août 2013 13:30
Oh wow. This summer has gone by so fast! I have been busy packing up and getting ready for the trip home, as well as organizing my files at work. It’s hard to put all my experiences from this summer into words, from fun hikes through the woods to challenging moments at work. So, instead of providing a list of all my experiences thus far,
6 août 2013 12:12
This summer is flying by and is almost to an end. I have been to the West Edmonton Mall a few times now, a rodeo, Jasper National Park and even to the falls here in Whitecourt! And since so much has gone on recently, I decided to put some of my extra and old photos in a slideshow, which can be accessed via the link at the bottom of this blog post.
23 juillet 2013 12:12
So these past two weekends have been full of excitement. I started my first weekend by going to a rodeo that I talked about in my earlier blog. I had never been to a rodeo before, and I was looking forward all week to going to this one. It involved many different competitions, with participants from all ages. But my two favorite competitions were the bull take-down and the bucking competition,
16 juillet 2013 15:13
So much has gone on these past few weeks. I have been featured in an internal company newsletter, congratulating me on my internship, and in a local newspaper regarding my internship. The reporter from the Whitecourt Star even came out to talk to me and take my photo! During the interview, he asked me about what I thought about the way I got this internship,
16 juillet 2013 15:07
For this blog, I have created a quick video on what a culvert inspection is and a few things we look for when we go out to do these inspections. To watch the video, just click the first link below. I will be doing lots of these inspections through the summer, because I’m currently in charge of completing all the inspections for all the roads in Millar Western’s forest management plan,
25 juin 2013 15:42
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,
22 mai 2013 13:14
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.
20 mai 2013 13:02
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,
19 mai 2013 13:08
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,