Yes , you misunderstood, a was talking about the mountain pine beetle epidemic that started in Tweedsmuir park just off the mid coast in BC. and destroyed a great portion of the lodgepole pine in BC and has made it over the rockies and through Alberta heading east. I believe its in Washington as well as I was close to the border that one year (2008) two years I fell for a helicopter with a real nice day rate but mostly
Its called fall and burn and they fly over and see the trees turning colour or they may be red then they mark it with a GPS in the helicopter. Next they will have a tender to eligible contractors to bid and comence work on the probings, which they will hike or snowmobile where they can, following the
Garmin to the exact coordinates, and that's the plot center. The probings crew will do a concentric ground survey. One guy will compass and hip chain out 25 metres (80 ft)and then hang a ribbon and another ribbon at 50 meters (160ft) in north south east and west directions creating four pie shapes quadrants with an inner circle that would only show on the GPS program.
The probers do sweeps through each quadrant at a time
and when they find a tree the GPS shows them exactly where they are standing in the circle then they but a little pencil mark on a scaled paper of the iner and outer circle. All beetle trees
will be be marked with a paint ring or pink ribbon.
Contractor for the fall and burn will have all the average specs
to bid on and the faller will have that paperwork when he gets on site. I have just been day rated to fall for the helicopter for a few seasons and also just gone in with a helper and burn them on site other years for usually $24 and $16 for the helper. (Per tree)There was big money for a while. So no its not salvage.
They used to log it in many accessible places because they got cheap stumpage rates.
That's what I was thinking, i just got corrected rightfully so for be loose with my numbers, rethought it, corrected myself and then got pounded the other way
tough crowd..lol
