Tools & skills: documentation, analysis, & dissemination

Coring mature shéix’w (red alder) with an increment borer on East Middle Fork of Sdéini Héeni, man’s name creek (Staney Creek, on Tàan, sea lion (Prince of Wales). For some measurements such as age of trees, no high-tech devices promise to replace good old elbow grease in the near future. This matriarch germinated around 1907 and is still vigorous. That’s way longer than the species lives in the Pacific Northwest. For more on Southeast longevity, see Life span.

Tools and skills is divided into:

● Field navigation

● Field sketching

● GIS (geographic information systems)

● Groundtruthing

● Journaling and blogging

● Landmark trees

● Photography and

● Tracking

Explore those sub-categories or view the entire JuneauNature hierarchy at this site map.