Showing posts with label field. Show all posts
Showing posts with label field. Show all posts
9.16.2011
they still got it
Some of the veteran (7+ years old) Tollers did a fun retrieve during the lunch hour of the working certificate testing on the Saturday of our trip to Calgary for the Toller Specialty.
2.08.2010
winter frozen land
Back in December we had a field day. It was cold. I went out with my colleague and a handful of other people from different organizations, etc to check out a possible route for rebuilding a road that was washed out along the Dosewallips River.
I took some GPS points... and of course pictures! Partly to document the washout and other areas at-risk, and partly just for my own enjoyment. (Ok, mostly for my own enjoyment, but it's a bonus that they're useful to the project, too.)
This is Case Creek. It has a sediment issue that causes the culvert under the road to get full of gravel and then ruins the road. We had to park our rig on one side and then take turns in the Jeep (with 4WD) to continue down to where we would be hiking the road route.
I took some GPS points... and of course pictures! Partly to document the washout and other areas at-risk, and partly just for my own enjoyment. (Ok, mostly for my own enjoyment, but it's a bonus that they're useful to the project, too.)
This is Case Creek. It has a sediment issue that causes the culvert under the road to get full of gravel and then ruins the road. We had to park our rig on one side and then take turns in the Jeep (with 4WD) to continue down to where we would be hiking the road route.
2.01.2010
Puutansuu… or is it Putaansuu?
I've seen it both ways but chances are you've never heard of it at all.
I hadn't either until I started this job.
Now I know all about Putaansuu, Waketickeh and a bunch of other strangely named streams that take too much mental energy to spit out.
Well, maybe not all about. But I at least have an idea of how they're supposed to be pronounced. (It still takes me about 5 seconds to finally spit out "Waketickeh" and that's by visualizing each syllable in my mind and sounding it out.)
Anywho.
About Puutansuu. Our stream layer shows Putaansuu Creek flowing out of a lake and into Chimacum Creek, but we've seen portions of it flowing both into the lake and into the creek-- which doesn't make any sense. During the salmon spawn survey season we hiked a portion of Putaansuu with our GPS and our track showed us on a tributary to Putaansuu and not on the mainstem. Needless to say we had a few questions about where the stream channel was really located and how/where it flowed.
These questions couldn't be answered to our satisfaction from studying aerial images and topography... so into the field we went! (Woohoo!)
I hadn't either until I started this job.
Now I know all about Putaansuu, Waketickeh and a bunch of other strangely named streams that take too much mental energy to spit out.
Well, maybe not all about. But I at least have an idea of how they're supposed to be pronounced. (It still takes me about 5 seconds to finally spit out "Waketickeh" and that's by visualizing each syllable in my mind and sounding it out.)
Anywho.
About Puutansuu. Our stream layer shows Putaansuu Creek flowing out of a lake and into Chimacum Creek, but we've seen portions of it flowing both into the lake and into the creek-- which doesn't make any sense. During the salmon spawn survey season we hiked a portion of Putaansuu with our GPS and our track showed us on a tributary to Putaansuu and not on the mainstem. Needless to say we had a few questions about where the stream channel was really located and how/where it flowed.
These questions couldn't be answered to our satisfaction from studying aerial images and topography... so into the field we went! (Woohoo!)
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