Kadizzle set off on a new venture yesterday. Helen is part of the range management group. Kadizzle was to assist her finding places where the forest was being measured. The way this works is we trie to find a spot out in the middle of nowhere that is used to check on the vegetation. Twenty five years ago someone went out and took pictures from specific spots. With GPS ideally we can find the spot and compare the old pictures to the current view and then take new pictures. This will provide a history of how the vegetation is evolving. It is not an easy process finding the spots even with a GPS because you have to figure out how to get close to the spot by road. Some of the roads are old, hardly visible, hardly usable, and treacherous. We managed to find the first couple places fairly easy because we had a GPS mark. Our last attempt failed. We were looking for a spot in a remote area and all we had was a poorly marked contour map, and the photos. After hiking around for about two and a half hours we had to give up. To be successful you have to stand where you can see the exact scene in about six or eight photos. We could not match any point that would give us the view of the photos. May have to try again. Fortunately the Forest Service road crew was working on the road we had to use. If not for the bulldozer we never would have even got close to the area. There are millions of acres in the Tonto National Forest, Kadizzle has spent years exploring the area and is always amazed when a new area is reached.
Of course we have to weave a little politics into this. An incredible amount of research and work has gone into managing the environment. Trump has managed to make so much of this work useless as he does everything in his power to destroy the climate.
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