GIS analysis, scouting, the current mission, WA state
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Ben de Vries
Sep 15, 2010, 2:43:23 PM9/15/10
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Firstly, welcome new contacts from WA regional rainbow gathering. I had a most excellent time in the mountains.
It's always a pleasure to get correspondence now that I am down from the woods.
For the next two weeks I will be carrying out the GIS data analysis to determine where a suitable site for next years' national rainbow gathering will be, in WA state. Any assistance in this regard, the location of spring fields in the Gifford Pinchot national forest which might provide 50,000 gals.+/day, would be appreciated. I have downloaded Arcreader http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcreader/index.html but what I need now is data layers, particularly water by long./lat. I can use google earth for sat image for other features. I can get topo maps, but I want to narrow down so I don't have to get every one for the entire forest, as that would be nearly cost prohibitive.
Following analysis and compilation for site selection I will be carrying out scouting of these sites first hand. I figure this will take about two weeks, and I have a transport partner and woodsman I have worked with in the past. At present HE is taking the next two weeks to refine a fuel surplus of vegetable oil for diesel and make sure the entire pre-launch mechanical checklist on his vehicles has been seen to.
Post production will include readying a presentation for thanksgiving council to be held here in WA. With luck we will find one or more suitable locations.
As usual this work is being carried out at our own expense, with no support (that I know of) save friends in the local area that let us take showers etc. This will be Portland. Maps, fuel, food, and equipment are at our expense... If anyone gets a wild hair to donate, I am happy to discuss...
Someone at WA regional asked me about scouting. I had one question for him: How many days have you spent in the woods and found your own food and water? He answered none. I told him he should go fishing and learn to camp and find wild food, and that I was very sorry but he was unprepared for what we do. My partner agreed "We don't roll like that, I ain't gonna babysit." So if you have already worked in the field and wish to join us, I am also happy to discuss...
After next year's rainbow I will offer a permaculture/site remediation workshop during cleanup.
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Ben de Vries
Certified Permaculture Designer
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It's always a pleasure to get correspondence now that I am down from the woods.
For the next two weeks I will be carrying out the GIS data analysis to determine where a suitable site for next years' national rainbow gathering will be, in WA state. Any assistance in this regard, the location of spring fields in the Gifford Pinchot national forest which might provide 50,000 gals.+/day, would be appreciated. I have downloaded Arcreader http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcreader/index.html but what I need now is data layers, particularly water by long./lat. I can use google earth for sat image for other features. I can get topo maps, but I want to narrow down so I don't have to get every one for the entire forest, as that would be nearly cost prohibitive.
Following analysis and compilation for site selection I will be carrying out scouting of these sites first hand. I figure this will take about two weeks, and I have a transport partner and woodsman I have worked with in the past. At present HE is taking the next two weeks to refine a fuel surplus of vegetable oil for diesel and make sure the entire pre-launch mechanical checklist on his vehicles has been seen to.
Post production will include readying a presentation for thanksgiving council to be held here in WA. With luck we will find one or more suitable locations.
As usual this work is being carried out at our own expense, with no support (that I know of) save friends in the local area that let us take showers etc. This will be Portland. Maps, fuel, food, and equipment are at our expense... If anyone gets a wild hair to donate, I am happy to discuss...
Someone at WA regional asked me about scouting. I had one question for him: How many days have you spent in the woods and found your own food and water? He answered none. I told him he should go fishing and learn to camp and find wild food, and that I was very sorry but he was unprepared for what we do. My partner agreed "We don't roll like that, I ain't gonna babysit." So if you have already worked in the field and wish to join us, I am also happy to discuss...
After next year's rainbow I will offer a permaculture/site remediation workshop during cleanup.
--
--
Ben de Vries
Certified Permaculture Designer
SKYPE: permaculture.designer
FACEBOOK: Benjamin Spock de Vries
YOUTUBE: permaculturedesigner
http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?GrowersResources
NOTICE
This email and any attachments may contain confidential or legally privileged information or copyright material. You should not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorization. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return email and then delete both messages. We do not accept liability in connection with computer virus, data corruption, delay, interruption, unauthorized access or unauthorized amendment. Please do not remove this notice.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
- John Cleese
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake: One of her characters asks, "As a species we're doomed by hope, then?" By hope? Well, yes. Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.
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