File:Mayflower PAC Employee Work Day (38625476054).jpg
Original file (7,360 × 4,912 pixels, file size: 15.19 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]DescriptionMayflower PAC Employee Work Day (38625476054).jpg |
Approximately 15 Coconino National Forest employees from the Flagstaff Ranger District and Supervisor's Office met on a chilly morning in early December to pitch in on a project located within Mexican spotted owl (MSO) habitat. Protected areas like this one, officially called "Protected Activity Centers" (or PACs), are areas across the forest where breeding Mexican spotted owls engage in their core activities, including nesting, roosting, and foraging. The day's project work was held at the Mayflower PAC not far from Mormon Lake, a corridor renowned for its incredible wildlife populations, including elk, bald eagles, mule deer, black bears, and goshawks. A portion of the MSO PAC had been hand-thinned with chainsaws in October 2017. In accordance with the treatment prescription, the thinned trees and branches had been scattered across the landscape so that later prescribed burn operations would return nutrients from the cut trees back to the soil. However, upon review by fire experts, it was determined the combination of existing dead and down trees (mainly from bark beetle die-off) and the thinned trees left too much fuel on the ground to safely burn in a small, six acre patch of the treated area. Led by silviculturist Mark Nabel, the employees set out to hand pile the newly cut trees and branches. They created piles seven to eight feet high, which will be allowed to settle and dry for at least a year before being burned individually. Once the piles are burned, the rest of the area can be safely treated with prescribed fire. The stands treated within this PAC are dominated by ponderosa pine, but also feature a lot of oak trees, an important tree species for the Mexican spotted owl. While some live tree losses are normally expected and desirable during a prescribed burn, managers want to take care to minimize the loss of oaks, particularly larger oaks, within the MSO PAC. Employee work days are special events open to all employees who work for the Forest. These events give project managers the opportunity to get a lot of people out to help with light to moderate manual labor, like hand piling cut wood, building fences, naturalizing illegal roads, and similar tasks. The employees get the benefits of working directly with fellow employees from other programs and Districts, contributing to important stewardship projects, learning about other jobs in the forest, and taking a break from their normal work to spend some time outdoors. This project area is part of the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI). Visit the 4FRI website at <a href="http://www.4fri.org" rel="nofollow">www.4fri.org</a> for more information about this important restoration effort. Photo taken December 6, 2017 by Deborah Lee Soltesz. Credit U.S. Forest Service Coconino National Forest. |
Date | |
Source | Mayflower PAC Employee Work Day |
Author | Coconino National Forest |
Camera location | 34° 56′ 02.04″ N, 111° 30′ 37.45″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 34.933900; -111.510403 |
---|
Licensing
[edit]This image was originally posted to Flickr by Coconino National Forest at https://flickr.com/photos/42034606@N05/38625476054 (archive). It was reviewed on 8 September 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark. |
8 September 2018
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse |
This image or file is a work of a United States Department of Agriculture employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
English ∙ español ∙ Nederlands ∙ slovenščina ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ македонски ∙ русский ∙ українська ∙ 日本語 ∙ +/− |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 03:08, 8 September 2018 | 7,360 × 4,912 (15.19 MB) | Tyler ser Noche (talk | contribs) | Transferred from Flickr via #flickr2commons |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Image title |
|
---|---|
Camera manufacturer | RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD. |
Camera model | PENTAX K-1 |
Author | Deborah Lee Soltesz |
Copyright holder |
|
Exposure time | 1/50 sec (0.02) |
F-number | f/11 |
ISO speed rating | 200 |
Date and time of data generation | 11:12, 6 December 2017 |
Lens focal length | 28 mm |
Latitude | 34° 56′ 2.04″ N |
Longitude | 111° 30′ 37.45″ W |
Altitude | 2,327.4 meters above sea level |
Credit/Provider | Deborah Lee Soltesz |
Source | USFS Coconino National Forest |
Online copyright statement | https://www.usa.gov/government-works |
Short title |
|
Usage terms |
|
City shown | Flagstaff |
Horizontal resolution | 240 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 240 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 7.1 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 08:04, 27 December 2017 |
Exposure Program | Landscape mode (for landscape photos with the background in focus) |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 11:12, 6 December 2017 |
APEX shutter speed | 5.643856 |
APEX aperture | 6.918863 |
APEX exposure bias | −0.7 |
Metering mode | Center weighted average |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
Color space | sRGB |
Focal plane X resolution | 2,049.0672912598 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 2,049.0672912598 |
Focal plane resolution unit | 3 |
Sensing method | One-chip color area sensor |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 28 mm |
Scene capture type | Landscape |
Contrast | Hard |
Saturation | Normal |
Sharpness | Hard |
Subject distance range | Distant view |
GPS time (atomic clock) | 18:12 |
Satellites used for measurement | 09 |
Receiver status | Measurement in progress |
Measurement mode | 3-dimensional measurement |
Speed unit | Kilometers per hour |
Speed of GPS receiver | 0.4 |
Reference for direction of movement | True direction |
Direction of movement | 319.18 |
Reference for direction of image | True direction |
Direction of image | 233.73 |
Geodetic survey data used | WGS-84 |
GPS date | 6 December 2017 |
GPS tag version | 0.0.3.2 |
Lens used | HD PENTAX-D FA 28-105mm F3.5-5.6ED DC WR |
Date metadata was last modified | 01:04, 27 December 2017 |
Writer | Deborah Lee Soltesz. Reviewed by Mark Nabel and Cary Thompson. |
Original transmission location code | FRD-WorkDay-MayflowerPAC |
Unique ID of original document | F524BB02BB2FB9288C9BA0560E573823 |
Copyright status | Copyright status not set |
Keywords |
|
Contact information | dsoltesz@fs.fed.us
http://coconinonationalforest.us 1824 S. Thompson St. Flagstaff, Arizona, 86001 United States |
Province or state shown | Arizona |
Country shown | United States |
Sublocation of city shown | Mormon Lake area |
Code for country shown | US |
IIM version | 4 |