The Forest Technology Blog

This post is about work productivity, and how Agentic AI is changing how we think about business workflows. Agentic AI uses underlying Large Language Models (LLM) to perform tasks autonomously with simple prompting. These systems can integrate with other software such as Google Drive, Microsoft Office, Gmail,...

The forester’s role isn’t disappearing, its rapidly changing. Over the next five to ten years, technology will shift the job from boots-on-the-ground data collection and monitoring toward data interpretation, strategic decision making, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The forester will need to know how to leverage technology on the job to get results faster, safer, and w...

Timber inventory (i.e., timber cruise) data can be stored in various ways. I find that it’s best to store this type of data in a relational database. A Geospatial database is another suitable choice after the data is cleaned and ready for analysis. Processing bottlenecks can occur when timber cruising contractors collect and send cruise data via spreadsheets. Using other comm...