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Please click on the “Resource Issues” link in the main menu bar. This part of the web site is where you will find many more panoramas and a lot more detailed information available in the form of text and image stories and audio/video sequences. You will notice on this page that the same watershed map appears with eight sub-watersheds or distinct geographic regions. However, the interactive functions on this map are different than the Interactive Journey map. Instead, you will notice as you roll over the various “Resource Issue” topics to the left of the map, dots appear on the map representing locations where a panorama is available to explore details about that issue.
Please roll your cursor over these resource topics now to see the dots appear. There are two Resource Issue topics we will explore for this demonstration. The first is “Fish Wildlife and Rare Plants” and you will notice that dots appear in almost all of the sub-watershed geographic regions for this topic. The other Resource Issue we will visit is the “Fire and Fuels” topic. You will notice that 5 different dots appear throughout the watershed for this topic. In addition, a larger transparent pinkish area appears over parts of the Johns Valley and Bear Valley regions. This is where the Sanford Fire 2002 took place and we will visit it second in this demonstration.
Please click on the “Fish, Wildlife and Rare Plants” topic to the left of the Resource Issues map.
http://www.uppersevier.net/resource/fishwild.html
Now you will see the same map again with the dots for this issue identified inside of each geographic region. As you roll over each of the regions with these dots you will see a highlight appear.
Click on the “Bear Valley” region to see the detailed terrain map with the name of one panorama location.
http://www.uppersevier.net/resource/bearval/bearfish.html
Click on the “3 Mile Creek Fish Surveys” location name to see the panorama view of two people with electroshocking gear.
http://www.uppersevier.net/resource/bearval/3milfish.html
Note that there is sound attached to this panorama. With this panorama there are “Related Links” to additional information on this and other web sites. Please don’t get sidetracked now by visiting these links during this demonstration.
You will also notice that there is another “Also see” link on the left side of the page. This will open up another panorama view a few hundred feet downstream, which we will explore second. First, move around the “3 Mile Creek Fish Surveys” panorama and you will see that there are three different hot spots. These will bring up new pages detailing information about this location.
Click on the hot spot to “See electroshocking equipment in action”. You will notice that a new page comes up with pictures and text describing this procedure. The text option is available for people who do not want to take the time to download an audio/video file from the Internet. A smaller video file option is available for those who have slower telephone modem access. A much larger video file is available for those who have cable, DSL or satellite access to the Internet. In this way, we have provided three different options to the audio/video hot spot information from the panorama pages throughout the Resource Issues section of the web site.
If you have a broadband Internet connection, select the “larger file – 6.2 MB” text link to open a new video page on top of the video story page. The QuickTime window should open in a few seconds with the first frame visible. The progress bar will indicate that the file is downloading. Note that you can play the video again or move it backward and forward and stop on single frames by using the controller bar at the bottom of the movie window. Please close this new video window page when you are done and return back to the “3 Mile Creek Fish Surveys” panorama by clicking on this text link at the top of the video story page.
Click on the “3 Mile Creek Habitat Improvement” link to the left of the panorama. Now you see a new panorama with 3 more hot spots. These hot spots will bring up new pages detailing information about this location.
Pan around and select the “Click here for a “fishy” success story!” hot spot. Now you will see a new page with more detailed information and, again, three options to understand what the video clip contains.
Select the “larger file – 9.1 MB” text link to open a new video page on top of the video story page. You will notice that most of this video was taken with a “glide cam” stabilizer which allows us to walk up and downstream with the camera to approximate the feeling of being there yourself as you view the video. Wireless microphones allowed us to obtain high quality sound from the resource people. Some of the video was edited to sound that was not taped at the exact same time.
Now close the video window page. If you have time, you can select the other hot spot links in the panorama for text and image stories. The next part of this preview demonstration will provide a brief examination of the Sanford Fire 2002 project.
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