Date post: | 14-Jul-2015 |
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Partnerships Departments
Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D)
Regional Groups
Equipment Pen/Paper
Handheld GPS
ArcPad
ArcGIS
Personal Mobile Devices?
Find a usable coordinate format
Create a feature class from the XY table
Play connect-the-dots using point attributes
Objective: To quantify the extent of garlic mustard growing in the heart of town and identify on whose lands it was growing.
Field mapping equipment: Handheld basic GPS receiver
Paper & pen to record starting and ending waypoint for each polygon
Method: Collected polygon points around each patch
Requested map showing patch sizes and parcel lines
Objective: To determine total miles of SK along county roadway ROW and evaluate potential for bio-control implementation
Field mapping equipment: Handheld basic GPS receiver
Paper & pen to record stop and start waypoint numbers for each
Method:
Collected via “windshield” survey
Requested map highlighting ROW infestations
Objective: Evaluate selected private forest lands for presence of
invasive plants
To increase invasives awareness by landowners
Project partners: Local RC&D provided funding
Vilas County provided employment services for field technician
Conserve School provided housing for technician
WHIP (weed co-op) provided Trimble unit
Mapping Dept. programmed Trimble
Objective: Survey all county roads ROW for presence of invasive plants in advance of developing ROW invasive species management plans for Highway Commissioners
Project partners: Local RC&D provided funding and employment services
to hire two LTEs
WHIP providing use of two Trimble units and oversight of LTEs
Mapping Depts. programmed Trimble units
Species [name list], Notes [text]
Count [<10, 10-50, >50], Area [<50, 50-500, >500]
WHIP Roadside Invasives Survey
AREA CollectionSpecies
Notes
WHIP Roadside Invasives Survey
LINE CollectionSpecies
NotesWHIP Roadside Invasives Survey
POINT CollectionSpecies
Approx Woody Species Plant Count
Approx Non-Woody Species Area (ft2)
Notes
Objective: Survey 70 shoreline miles of Eagle river chained lakes for presence of PL plants to evaluate need for bio-control project
Project partners: Chain of Lakes Association volunteers
Vilas Mapping Dept.
Method: Volunteer spotters collected GPS coordinates and plant
counts during 2011 PL bloom season
Mapping Dept produced map
Bio-control program now underway