by Tig Tillinghast | Jul 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
With the Forest Metrix cameras trained on the loon nest and its environs, we get to see the foggy transformation from night to day and couldn’t resist processing the images into a timelapse. Note the lily pad flowers at the bottom of the screen opening up at the...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jul 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
Yesterday was day 31 of the Cooper’s hawks’ first hatching. A lot has happened in the past 7 days, since the last update. As I suspected, soon after the last update, they fledged. I was up in the tree when I believe it first happened, although it could be that this...
by Donn Downey | Jun 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
UMaine is recruiting to fill a new Forestry Professor position at a branch campus in northern Maine. This would be a great opportunity for a recent forestry graduate with a MS or PhD. It is a full-time 12 month appointment with 50% teaching and 50% research...
by Tig Tillinghast | Jun 17, 2016 | Nature, Uncategorized
June 12 I had been starting to despare that we’d only have three chicks this year. Which is a perfectly normal of chicks for a Cooper’s nest, if a bit on the low side. But more would make this year’s observations more analogous to last year’s data, when we saw five...
by Tig Tillinghast | Sep 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Here at Forest Metrix have a unique perspective on the roll-out of TRAQ. Our program is the only one we know of currently that has all of the TRAQ data fields integrated into an electronic system that manages TRAQ records and automates calculations. This means that as...
by Tig Tillinghast | Sep 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last year, we ran a poll of about 2,500 arborists and other tree care professionals to gauge how the industry was faring. A month ago, we ran the poll once more, this time against more than 4,000 pros. As in 2014, we discovered some interesting trends. What follows is...
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