Free Post Week 2

This week, I really saw a connection with the prompted post and writing style of professional foresters and people just discussing forestry. At a job it is very important to write professionally and relay important information to others in the field. This will transition perfectly into the next prompted post which is an interview of a professional in my field. Im very curious to hear what he has to say about the amount of writing he uses at his job. Forestry is a very "field" related job but I'm very doubtful that there aren't some days where a forester would be behind a desk mapping out results onto paper. I think that writing for forestry is used as a sort of documentation in most cases and serves as a great source of communication. Tree plots and maps are used by everyone in forestry and provide information on problems that the individual may have found in those specific areas.

Another type of writing or communication that I found useful for a forester is the tree encyclopedias. It is absolutely essential for a forester to be able to identify trees. In one of my other classes, handbooks require a 99% accuracy when identifying trees. There needs to be virtually no mistake on what type of tree someone is looking at. Documenting this information through writing needs to be flawless and when done correctly serves as an important forestry tool.


Works Cited:
spratmackrel. Identifying Trees/Sea Shells/Seaweed. Photograph. flickeflu.com. flickeflu.com. Web. 17 Septemember 2013.