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Everyone either makes changes or allows the lands they are responsible for ... to change.</div>
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You plant</div>
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You burn</div>
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You plow</div>
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You let the forest grow</div>
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You cut the forest down</div>
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Beavers build dams</div>
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You build a house</div>
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Your city builds houses</div>
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Glaciers retreat</div>
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Dunes shift</div>
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Marshes drown</div>
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Marshes are created</div>
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Your yard ... changes</div>
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Your refuge ... is managed</div>
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These are big, important changes, but do you document that? ... or actually measure those changes? </div>
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No, you do not because it is time consuming.</div>
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Or, is it?</div>
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A simple cellphone camera station is your solution. Particularly great if you can get volunteers or visitors to do the work.</div>
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A number of years ago our lab, using the help of interns, staff, my daughter Wren (<span id="❤️">❤️)</span>, and her friends worked out a way of creating fixed digital records using fixed camera stations and cell phones. Simple really.</div>
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We put the idea out on listservs and facebook (of course) and a group (I think it was the Wildlife Management Institute) created a website illuminating the idea (monitorchange. org). </div>
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Now another group has taken the idea and taken it beyond the Do It Yourself world.</div>
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<a href="https://www.chronolog.io/" style="">https://www.chronolog.io/</a><br>
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Its worldwide and your data will be visible, linkable, and archived. Tools are available. </div>
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Check them out. </div>
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Don't email me about this was developed independently (though I do bug them about adding features), contact them directly at:</div>
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info@chronolog.io<br>
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