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Summer Camp

Dr. Jim Dyer - GPS in Natural Resource Management - July 26 thru August 8, 2007

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Denton Culpepper, Jacob Haring and Josh McClain prepare for Global Positioning System tracking

Aubrey Simpkins is GPS tracking while Stacy Kidd waits to flag

Matt Bailey flags for tracker, Brent Norris

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Justin Jacobs uses GPS tracker while Jordan Speer,  Lance Kelpe and Rustin Stephens observe Student Matt Bailey wrote his name with a GPS rover.  His name was 100 feet long.  Dr. Jim Dyer demonstrates proper GPS tracking methods for student, Aubrey Simpkins

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Students Learn Global

 Positioning inside the Spatial

 Data Lab in Lomax Hall

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 The Historic Districts of Ruston map created by Denton Culpepper, Jacob Haring, Stacy Kidd and Hunter Robertson

    

Ruston Parks and Recreation Ball Fields map created by Lance Kelpe, Justin Jacobs and Jordan Speer

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 Simsboro Fire Hydrants Current & Abandoned map created by Aubrey Simpkins, Randy Wiggins, Jake Azbell and Josh McClain

 

Freshman Survival in Ruston map created by Trey Wynn, Rustin Stephens and Brent Norris


Dr. Jim Dickson - Forest Sustainability and Recreational Use -  June 14 thru June 27, 2007

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Rhea Rylee and Mike Hennigan, a L A Tech Forestry
graduate, point out a mountain stream crossing designed to minimize sedimentation.
 

 Class in the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas

 

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  Students learn stream sampling under the direction of Dr. Jim Dickson, Dr. Bill Patterson, Research Associate, Dan Taylor and Research Associate, Joey Haley.  The team conducted this sampling on the Jackson-Bienville Wildlife Management Area on Redwine Creek.  

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Aimee Robert, Interpretive Ranger with Louisiana State Parks and a LA Tech School of Forestry graduate, talks to the class about Lake Claiborne State Park.   Larry Hedrick of the Ouachita National Forest explains shortleaf pine/ bluestem ecosystem restoration.


 

Dr. John C. Adams - Silviculture II -  May 31 thru June 13, 2007 

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George Franklin Tract
 Holly Ridge, LA
 

 Oldest Bottomland Hardwood Restoration at Franklin Tract

 Anthony Forest Products, Urbana, AR

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 Harvesting at Anthony Forest Products

 Looking at a clear cut and artificial regeneration at TimberStar Southwest
Castor, LA

  A clear cut and artificial regeneration on sandy soil at TimberStar 

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 Harvesting at TimberStar

 To the mill

 Evidence of note taking in Crossett, AR

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 U. S. Forest Service
Crossett Experimental Station, Crossett, AR

 A very dense stand at
U. S. Forest Service

 Don Bragg of U. S. Forest Service speaks to students

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State Champion Loblolly Pine
Lloyd P. Blackwell set aside


Old Growth Natural Area
U. S. Forest Service


TO VIEW OUR SUMMER CAMP PHOTOS:

August 2006 - Dr. Mark Gibson, Photographer

July 2006 - Dr. John C. Adams, Photographer

June 2006 - Dr. Ray A. Newbold, Photographer


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