Bob, Welcome back, and we await your report. I hope the Nikon Forestry 550 measures up to the quality of the Nikon 440.
James Parton. On Apr 1, 4:24 am, [email protected] wrote: > ENTS, > > Well, it is me, finally back into circulation. As a post-operative gift > to myself, I've ordered a Nikon Forestry 550. A new forester acquaintance > from New Hampshire asked my opinion of the instrument, so I feel duty bound > to respond to him with a real evaluation. I currently own a Nikon Prostaff > 550 as well as a Nikon Prostaff 440, but the Forestry 550 promises to be a > poor man's competitor to my LaserTech TruPuse 200. The Forestry 550 is > actually a hypsometer as opposed to just a rangefinder. When the 550 arrives, > naturally I'll give a full report on it to the list. > I hope to resume the presentation of the problem set for the list. I > think I left off at #18 before my operation. If anyone wants a particular > problem type solved, please let me know. The purpose of developing the > problem set is to illustrate the solution to a wide range of tree measurement > problems including the most basic to our membership. Spreadsheet solutions > are provided for the computational intensive problems. This is your > opportunity to speak up. Any problem type, no matter how basic, just ask, and > you shall receive. > Much of my time over the next several months will be spent completing > the draft of Dendromorphometry - The Art and Science of Measuring Trees in > the Field. For our new members who aren't aware, 5 of us (Dr. Lee Frelich, > Dr. Don Bragg, Dr. Robert Van Pelt, Will Blozan, and myself) have undertaken > the mission of developing tree-based mensuration as a formal discipline. We > now have plenty of material and the time is right for the book. I'll give > little progress reports along the way to completing the draft. > As a final message to the membership, our numbers now stand at 328. I > can remember a time when I wasn't sure we'd ever get much above 75, but > kindred spirits have been finding us in increasing numbers. It has been soul > satisfying to Will and I to watch ENTS become well established and > increasingly recognized as THE tree measuring organization in the U.S. BTW, > before I forget, we will be having a major ENTS rendezvous and old-growth > forest conference in Oct here in western Massachusetts. Gary Beluzo and I > will get cracking on the planning soon and keep the list fully informed. > > Bob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
