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To: GPS Info who wrote (3242)	3/10/2006 11:54:35 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3506

I saw some of those military receivers when I went to a GPS session in Juneau. They look as though they would survive a bullet strike. You could not put one in your shirt pocket, however. I believe the story you related, because we used hardened handheld computers for data collection, and when they were first introduced, training started with just such a demonstration of throwing it on the floor vigorously. Those handheld computers cost $3000 a piece, and were set up for one function only -- collect data. They've been upgraded so many times that the originals are just surplused. I thought I might use them after retirement in consulting work so I put in a bid of $10 and got 13 of them. I still have them in a box in my basement, but I expect I will have to take them to the landfill, as they are DOS machines. My vegetation inventory responsibilities stopped at the National Forest boundaries, but I collaborated with the Forestry Sciences lab who was responsible for inventories on other lands, such as Kodiak and the Kenai. Except for who owned the land under the three-mile sample grid, the sample was indistinguishable. My project was the first in the National Forest System to use that design; now they all do. I was also the first to integrate National Forest inventory with the vegetation inventory on state and private lands. I was very proud of that.