Lady Forester - Participatory Forestry in Dry Tropical Africa

Lady Forester

This feels like home

AAS, Forest Technology (1981)
BSc, Forest Management (1992)
Master of Science, Forest Inventory (2002)

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Cecilia Polansky

Musings from members of
LAdies Caring for the Environment (LACE)

Documents, lexicons, ideas, and posters for Africa forestry

TIMBER AND NONTIMBER
FOREST PRODUCT
INVENTORY REPORTS

NATURAL RESOURCES

Data collection, analysis, mapping, salvage

PARTICIPATORY
FOREST MANAGEMENT
EXAMPLES

PARTICIPATORY INVENTORY
MANUAL 2006-10

CV - English

I use Excel, Access, Word, and
ArcView software and have
experience in using photo and
satellite imagery in timber and
nontimber forest resource inventory,
in particular using community input.

Links to Topics in
Dry Africa Forestry

WHERE ARE THE PITSAWYER'S
SHOES in this Central Benin Forest?
The Quiz on African Pitsawyers

WHAT TYPE OF FOREST IS IN
THE BACKGROUND?
The Quiz on Miombo Woodlands

WHAT'S WRONG WITH
THIS PICTURE ?

Your comments

Waste of Valuable
Hardwoods in Guinea
and elsewhere

EXTENSION
POSTERS

If you would like to
* comment on any aspect of this site
* submit material
* send a request for services
* put a link on the page
* get permission to use a photo
... please e-mail me

MAPPING AND INVENTORY AIDS
(INCLUDING SPECIES LEXICONS)

Questions

Can you name the tree that produces the blossom
shown in the corners? (Hint: the common name
includes something you'd put on your pizza.)

Colleagues
and links

CV - Français

Once, during an interview for a job in Africa, I was asked how I
thought I would do in the position, given that I had 3 strikes against
me: Being a woman, being an American, and being non -Muslim.
- Priscilla

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