The Nature Conservancy is working with the Owyhee Local Sage Grouse Working Group and Jordan Valley Coordinated Weed Management Area to use this machine - called a juniper masticator - to chomp up the spreading junipers. When the juniper trees are reduced in number sage grouse habitat it improved.
Note! for some reason the YouTube videos are not showing up in the pop-up windows in this upload. The pop up windows for the 360 panoramas do display and the links to the panoramas do display on in a web browser. However, the back button on the panorama page takes you back to the the beginning of the tour I will try to remedy the YouTube and panorama issues if I can, ASAP!
The Google Earth Tour below provides eight short video sequences and three 360 degree interactive panorama photographic views describing the process and the results in 2010 & 2011.
Here is a link to a web site that contains all of the videos and panoramas in 540p High Definition.
Here is a link to the Google Earth KMZ file you can open in the Google Earth Browser. The YouTube videos and panoramas do open correctly if you use this file.
Photography, Production & Google Earth Tour by Mountain Visions, 2011.
