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Entries in Sanggau (2)

Wednesday
Dec192012

Social Forestry Development Project

A few details on some recent posts about West Kalimantan (see Hedda and Ernst and Provisions). The Social Forestry Development Project, or SFDP, (map shown above) was the GTZ project that Ernst Kuester was team leader of and with which I worked for several years. Community management of an old logging concession containing over 102,000 hectares. Fifty-eight Dayak villages and four different languages (not dialects). Dark green areas on the map are intact Dipterocarp hill forest. That needed to be inventoried and described. Which is where I came in.

Satellite image of the SFDP site is shown above. Red squares are the 70 inventory plot clusters that we located throughout the area in a stratified, random fashion (see Global Positioning System). Recorded 455 tree species and compiled a massive database (1419 entries) of plant uses. Incredible amount of work. Great fun. [NOTE: I was walking through the forests of interior Borneo with Dayaks counting and measuring trees almost 20 years ago. This project was visionary (thx, Ernst)].

Tuesday
Mar062012

Western Borneo

I did some extensive forest inventories in Western Borneo during the early 1990's (see Field Crews). Spent a lot of time camping out in the forest with field crews of local Dayaks. Big trees, big parangs, and great headgear. [NOTE: I was probably supposed to be doing something when I took this picture. Looks like everyone is waiting for me].