John Hagan on LiDAR and Maine’s Old Growth Forests
This episode of Friends of Baxter Podcast features ecologist, John Hagan of Our Climate Common. John explains his work in ornithology and how his bird research led him to discover LiDAR and the work he uses it for now in tracking Maine’s old growth forests.
“It gives you a special feeling, just standing there…I can’t explain it. I’m supposed to be a scientist you know, all numbers and all, but…when you’re in a stand that…has never been harvested, been doing what it’s doing for probably 400 to 500 years, it’s special and it’s different.”