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Re: TH: Fledgling hometown forestry
Post-To: Tree-House@Majordomo.Flora.Com (Community Forestry) ----------
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Hi Richard,
Thanks to you and all TH participants who have offered suggestions and
have shared information...this is a terrific resource! We are doing a
lot with a little (three small grants supported by matching
funds/in-kind donations for development of demonstration forest +
community tree planting/education efforts) and if we keep on doing a lot
with a little we will eventually get there : )
Beverly Gingg, Coordinator
Santa Margarita Community Forestry
http://www.slonet.org/~bgingg/
RT Ellsberry wrote:
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> After replying to the Santa Margarita Community Foresters (Ca US)
> tonight, it occurred that Tree-House could publish a simple public-
> domain tree inventory database template, on Flora's website.
>
> Perhaps our members could help 'sketch out' what such an object
> might look like ...
>
> ----------- + ----------- + ------------ + ----- + ------ + ------------
> Location | Species | Owner | Age | Girth | Informant ...
> ----------- + ----------- + ------------ + ----- + ------ + ------------
> 1700 Elm St | Q. alba | Anne Oakley | 47 yr | 1.9m | A. Oakley ...
> 1703 Elm St | M. grandifl | Maggie South | ~2 yr | 3" dia | G. Letteron
> | | | | | ...
>
> Such an ASCII text file (whatever that means) could then be imported
> into *any* standard software package, to be perfected over time, and
> configured for the specialized needs of one's local environment.
>
> With the proliferation of GIS technologies being applied to community
> forestry these days (Geographic Information Systems), this kind of
> documentation could have long-range benefits beyond what *any* of us
> can even imagine now. Beverly - we have to remind ourselves that all
> funding sources must justify their expenditures. Resources will always
> be allocated to those projects who can best demonstrate, empirically,
> the successes of their works, over time.
>
> Richard@Flora.Com
> -------------------------+----------------------+----------------------
> Richard Tryzno Ellsberry | FloraList Operations | Baltimore USDA Zone 7
> -------------------------+-( http://Flora.Com )-+----------------------
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