Look Ma, No Hands!
Well the balmy days of summer are over, and everyone is back to school. The Hawaii SWARS team will be working diligently to complete our project by June 2010 as required by the Farm Bill. We have some new data, some spatial such as LANDFIRE, and some historical such as the documents given to me by Bob Miriam when he retired. We have some new partners including Fish and Wildlife Service and The Nature Conservancy, and we have a new full-time staff person, so please welcome Colleen Carroll. And we have new technology too, including MacSpeech. For example this entire post has been spoken into a microphone and translated instantly into the written word. Without a spelling error.
So while we may have some catching up to do, we have the data, the plan, the people, and the enthusiasm to produce the country’s best Statewide Assessment of Forest Conditions and Resource Strategy.
All the best, Ron.
