Day 15

This morning we all woke up at 6:30 because we needed to make breakfast and lunch so we could go meet our tour guides. The people that we met with work at different offices and different jobs. We met with Lance, Clint and their boss and couple of their youth forestry helpers. Lance told us about 3p which means Project Process Program. He would also bring community members up into the forest to ask for their opinion on what to ndo if theywanted to log wood from that area. The foresters use data that he collects tohelp them find the best logging areawith the best wood. Lance would go out and collect data and then he would compile the data for the loggers. The fire department will go in after the loggers and burn the piles of wood, but they will leave 2-3 piles for the wildlife. The loggers will also leave the 2-5 big pines per acre. Lance talked to us about how they go in and do a boundary that tells the loggers not to go past into someone’s yard or onto someone’s feeding land.  He told us how he will go and take some data so that he can go and make a map for the loggers so that they know what to log and cut down. After lunch,  Lance and Clint bruoght their equipment out showed us. Lance showed us his equipment and he told us that he needs to mark every tree so thatb it is  accounted for when they do logging sessions. Lance showed us a book that determines what can be used in an area that is going to be logged. Clint talked to us about the equipment and showed us what type of equipment that he uses when he is fighting fire on the front lines.They told us about how important it is to carry a GPS unit and a c ompass incas you get lost while working in the forest.