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.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Boise River at High Water June 3, 2011 Google Earth Plug In Tour
The Google Earth Plug in will play this file in your chosen web browser.
To start this tour use the "Play" > arrow in the controller bar on the bottom left of the map. (You can pause this play function and navigate around at your leisure and open placemark information windows if you wish.)
Idaho Rivers United and the Land Trust for the Treasure Valley partnered with LightHawk pilot, Bob Peterson and Gary Grimm of Mountain Visions to capture more than 200 aerial photographs of the Boise River on June 3, 2011, from the Glenwood Bridge to the Snake River on the Oregon Idaho border. This Google Earth Tour provides a sample of a dozen of these photos, with short explanatory descriptions, placed at the locations where they were taken during the flight.
As you play this tour some web browsers may have the "Historical Imagery" slider enabled at the top left of the window. Pause the player and close down any windows that are open and you can move the slider back and forth to see development stages along the Boise River over time.
Here is a link to a kmz file that will allow you to download it to Google Earth and use the "Historical Slider" and additional layers that Google Earth provides.
To start this tour use the "Play" > arrow in the controller bar on the bottom left of the map. (You can pause this play function and navigate around at your leisure and open placemark information windows if you wish.)
Idaho Rivers United and the Land Trust for the Treasure Valley partnered with LightHawk pilot, Bob Peterson and Gary Grimm of Mountain Visions to capture more than 200 aerial photographs of the Boise River on June 3, 2011, from the Glenwood Bridge to the Snake River on the Oregon Idaho border. This Google Earth Tour provides a sample of a dozen of these photos, with short explanatory descriptions, placed at the locations where they were taken during the flight.
As you play this tour some web browsers may have the "Historical Imagery" slider enabled at the top left of the window. Pause the player and close down any windows that are open and you can move the slider back and forth to see development stages along the Boise River over time.
Here is a link to a kmz file that will allow you to download it to Google Earth and use the "Historical Slider" and additional layers that Google Earth provides.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Idaho Highway 12 Megaload Tour using a 3D truck model
To start this tour use the "Play" > arrow in the controller bar on the bottom left of the map. (You can pause this play function and navigate around at your leisure and open placemark information windows if you wish.)
I imported an original Google Map made by the All Against the Haul people in Montana into the Google Earth 3D program and added placemark locations on a few selected Idaho Highway 12 bridges and narrow places. I was also able to find a 3D Heavy Transport truck model in the Google 3D Warehouse that looks generally similar to one of the megaloads and placed a copy of this at these selected locations.(Here is a link to the 3D truck model created by Nasranejsanta)
All Against the Haul also has a Facebook page where they are posting regular updated news on Megaload travel locations and other issues citizens in Idaho, Montana and Canada would be interested in.
In the Google Earth6 Browser we can now use the "Street View" to move into and look around at interactive photographic panorama views of each of these locations, but I was unable to get that function to work in the embedded Google Earth Plugin tour above. This might be possible to do, but so far I have not found the solution. Meanwhile if you open this KMZ file in the Google Earth 6 Browser and play the MegaloadTour (Play this first) file you can see these street views yourself. Pause the controller bar and move up and down the highway to see how it really looks photographically, as if you are driving along the the same Highway 12 as the Megaloads.
I imported an original Google Map made by the All Against the Haul people in Montana into the Google Earth 3D program and added placemark locations on a few selected Idaho Highway 12 bridges and narrow places. I was also able to find a 3D Heavy Transport truck model in the Google 3D Warehouse that looks generally similar to one of the megaloads and placed a copy of this at these selected locations.(Here is a link to the 3D truck model created by Nasranejsanta)
All Against the Haul also has a Facebook page where they are posting regular updated news on Megaload travel locations and other issues citizens in Idaho, Montana and Canada would be interested in.
In the Google Earth6 Browser we can now use the "Street View" to move into and look around at interactive photographic panorama views of each of these locations, but I was unable to get that function to work in the embedded Google Earth Plugin tour above. This might be possible to do, but so far I have not found the solution. Meanwhile if you open this KMZ file in the Google Earth 6 Browser and play the MegaloadTour (Play this first) file you can see these street views yourself. Pause the controller bar and move up and down the highway to see how it really looks photographically, as if you are driving along the the same Highway 12 as the Megaloads.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Tour along Idaho Highway 12/ Clearwater and Lochsa River Corridors
This is a quick draft Google Earth animation from Lewiston, Idaho to Missoula, Montana along the Clearwater and Lochsa corridors and Highway 12. (use the controller bar to pause the animation if you do not see the town names associated with the white arrows.) I would like to expand this tour in the future. If anyone is interested in helping I would appreciate it.
You can also choose to download this IdahoHighway12.KML file you can open with the Google Earth browser. This way you can turn on the "Photos" layer to see many photographs taken along the river corridors.
This section of Highway 12 goes through remote mountain forest areas and was the last US Highway constructed in 1962. (Wikipedia reference)
This route has been proposed, and a permit granted by the Idaho Transportation Department, to allow megaload equipment weighing as much as 300 tons and as much as 30 feet high and 24 feet wide and would occupy the entire roadway, to be transported over this route. A public hearing is to be held in Boise this Friday November 19 at 9: AM at the Idaho Transportation Department Headquarters - 331 W. State St. in Boise. Idaho Rivers United has more information about this hearing on this web page.
You can also choose to download this IdahoHighway12.KML file you can open with the Google Earth browser. This way you can turn on the "Photos" layer to see many photographs taken along the river corridors.
This section of Highway 12 goes through remote mountain forest areas and was the last US Highway constructed in 1962. (Wikipedia reference)
This route has been proposed, and a permit granted by the Idaho Transportation Department, to allow megaload equipment weighing as much as 300 tons and as much as 30 feet high and 24 feet wide and would occupy the entire roadway, to be transported over this route. A public hearing is to be held in Boise this Friday November 19 at 9: AM at the Idaho Transportation Department Headquarters - 331 W. State St. in Boise. Idaho Rivers United has more information about this hearing on this web page.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
CuMo Molybdenum Mine Tour (Automatic Pop-up Windows)
The Forest Service is holding public informational meetings on 13 miles of CuMo Molybdenum Mine road construction, the next step to building the mine which may have the largest open-pit accessible deposits in the world. (See this Idaho Conservation League web page for more details.)
Start the tour by clicking the > play button in the controller bar in the bottom left of the map below. Pop up windows will automatically open with photos, information and links at each of the major mine icons and the Sand Dam Arrow. Pause the playback to read the information in the windows or click on links. (Note! pause the playback for a second if you do not see text associated with towns and features icons and the text will appear. Then continue playing the tour again.) Google Earth has acknowledged this issue & they are working on it.
Here is a link to a manual version of the tour that does not automatically open the pop up windows for the mines and the Sand Dam.
If you prefer to use the Google Earth Browser here is a link to the KMZ file where you can play either the automatic or manual version of the CuMo Mine Tour, or simply explore on your own.
Start the tour by clicking the > play button in the controller bar in the bottom left of the map below. Pop up windows will automatically open with photos, information and links at each of the major mine icons and the Sand Dam Arrow. Pause the playback to read the information in the windows or click on links. (Note! pause the playback for a second if you do not see text associated with towns and features icons and the text will appear. Then continue playing the tour again.) Google Earth has acknowledged this issue & they are working on it.
Here is a link to a manual version of the tour that does not automatically open the pop up windows for the mines and the Sand Dam.
If you prefer to use the Google Earth Browser here is a link to the KMZ file where you can play either the automatic or manual version of the CuMo Mine Tour, or simply explore on your own.
CuMO Molybdenum Mine Tour (Manual Pop-up Windows)
The Forest Service is holding public informational meetings on 13 miles of CuMo Molybdenum Mine road construction, the next step to building the mine which may have the largest open-pit accessible deposits in the world. (See this Idaho Conservation League web page for more details.)
Start the tour by clicking the > play button in the controller bar in the bottom left of the map below. Pop up windows are available with photos, information and links for each of the major mine icons and the Sand Dam Arrow. Pause the playback and click on these icons to read the information in the windows or click on links. (Note! pause the playback for a second if you do not see text associated with towns and features icons and the text will appear. Then continue playing the tour again. Google Earth has acknowledged this issue & they are working on it.)
Here is a link to the version of the tour that automatically opens the pop up windows for the mines and the Sand Dam.
If you prefer to use the Google Earth Browser here is a link to the KMZ file where you can play either the automatic or manual version of the CuMo Mine Tour, or simply explore on your own.
Start the tour by clicking the > play button in the controller bar in the bottom left of the map below. Pop up windows are available with photos, information and links for each of the major mine icons and the Sand Dam Arrow. Pause the playback and click on these icons to read the information in the windows or click on links. (Note! pause the playback for a second if you do not see text associated with towns and features icons and the text will appear. Then continue playing the tour again. Google Earth has acknowledged this issue & they are working on it.)
Here is a link to the version of the tour that automatically opens the pop up windows for the mines and the Sand Dam.
If you prefer to use the Google Earth Browser here is a link to the KMZ file where you can play either the automatic or manual version of the CuMo Mine Tour, or simply explore on your own.
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