New Technology Grants: 79 Mill from DOE, Including Improving Wood Heating
What NOT to do in fire country. Whatever the color of the Administration, the relatively obscure wheels of scientific research and development continue along well-worn paths (whether the wording of...
View ArticleCool New Tool for Coloradans: Recreation Impact Monitoring System
If there were a The Smokey Wire Fix Not Fight Timely Innovation Award, this effort by the Colorado Mountain Club would be a winner. We’ve been talking about keeping track of recreation impacts and here...
View ArticleTouchless reforestation
Drone technology is being used for tree-planting in response to afforestation and carbon sequestration needs, including use after wildfires. How might this change national forest management? To...
View ArticleCool Technologies Round-up: Wolves, Eagles, Sheep, Seed and Satellites
I’ve seen a variety of cool new technologies so thought I’d put them all in one post. Drone seeding (if you watched the Bladon wildfire and hydrology seminar, you might reflect that aerial seeding in...
View ArticleForest Service Geneticist Makes the New York Times: Olympic National Forest,...
The Maple Fire in Olympic National Forest in Washington in 2018 burned 3,300 acres.Credit…USDA Forest Service Here’s a link to an interesting New York Times story. In the spring and summer of 2018, a...
View ArticleMoo calves disco up the Green River, griz and wolves not invited: from Wyofile
Somewhere along the lines of discussing prescribed fire and slash burning, someone raised the point of “don’t our technologies allow us to monitor hot spots better?” Which reminded me of this “cool...
View ArticleFriday News Roundup: Including Virtual Fencing, Light Impacts on Wildlife,...
It’s summertime.. Time to watch out for rattlesnakes in reservoirs! Thanks to the Cowboy State Daily. (I forgot to put the link previously so here it is.) “They actually cross Boysen all the time....
View ArticleThoughts on DxP and Some Cool New Technical Innovations for Tree Marking:...
Note from Sharon.. Based on the earlier discussion Jon started here of DxP, I asked Eli Jensen of Ironwood Forestry to add his two cents and also talk about some of his cool technologies. I wanted the...
View ArticleImproving public access to public lands
We have discussed “corner crossings” and other barriers to public land access resulting from land ownership patterns. Overlaying this is another barrier – availability of information about the extent...
View ArticleResearchers develop better way to make painkiller from trees
Here’s a link, thanks to Forest Business Network. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed a cost-effective and environmentally sustainable way to make a popular pain...
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