Burning Pixels

I'm heading to the Boundary Waters in a few days. We depart SLC Sunday morning and will arrive in Grand Marais, MN, later that day. I've spent time this week working on a plot sampling strategy based on the dNBR and access points. We will be towed in to the Jap Lake Portage and then will be dropped off with our canoes. We will split up into two groups. One group will hike up the Jap Lake Portage and gather samples along the trail. Another group will canoe to another part of the lake and hike in from the shore. I'm very excited to see this landscape and to done a field trip like this and get paid to do so. How sweet.

Below is a graphic showing what I've been working on. The blue line represents a 750m buffer around Sea Gull Lake. We figure we can't get much farther off the shoreline without a trail and without wasting all day bushwacking. The grey lines are the Cavity Lake Fire perimeter. The black lines are trails or portages between lakes. The orange blocks are areas we figure are good sampling locations. When we first get there, we get to take a float plane up in the air and fly over all the fires. Pretty sweet. We're all pretty excited.