Progress!

Hi everybody!
We've got about 20 miles done so far! I think it is really great and going to be very useful.

After downloading the observations from iNaturalist and mapping them in GIS it becomes pretty clear that we don't need the frequency of honeysuckle and buckthorn observations. I understand that it is slowing down the process and in the mapping it obscures the picture a little bit. The observation spacing for common buckthorn and honeysuckle ranged between 100 and 400' I think that 300' tells the story. Feel free to use this spacing for common buckthorn and honeysuckle.

For less common species that are growing densely but not as widespread please maintain the current spacing. It is clear that we've got pockets of barberry, multiflora rose, bittersweet, etc. Being able to recognize these localized infestations is going to be the coolest part of the mapping project.

Thanks again! I know folks were shooting for 50 miles of road mapped, which I think will be a stretch at this point, and that is okay. If we got 35 or 40 miles done, that would be a huge success. With the final mapping push lets try to connect the dots on some of these roads, this could include Snipe Island Road (south from Nashville Rd) and Snipe Ireland Road (north from Rt 2), Dugway Road (btwn Huntington Rd and Cochran Rd.).

Does anybody know a game plan for the mapping? Who's doing what roads? I was gonna go out on Wednesday and do a couple hours to add to the project, but don't want to map where somebody was planning to do it already. Let me know. - kt

Posted on October 20, 2014 09:30 PM by kothomps