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Resource Issues Page

At this time, please open the “Resource Issues” page from the Upper Sevier site. You should be able to alternately bring this page forward to read this text and bring the Resource Issues page forward to look at the features being described. If your screen resolution is high enough you may be able to see both of these pages side by side.

Notice again that the graphic elements on the top of the page are similar to other main pages on the web site, except a different picture is used and this is identified as the “Resource Issues” main page. Two short paragraphs of text are located at the left, which provides an overview of the subject and explains how to use the Resource Issues map on the right.

A detailed description of how this map and the detailed geographic section maps were produced was given in the Interactive Journey Detailed Overview part of this on-line workshop. This description will not be repeated here.

To understand the details of the restoration efforts the watershed community is involved in, this Resource Issues area is one of the most important sections of the web sites. It contains most of the panoramas, image and text stories and audio-video clips for the whole site. Eleven different resource issues are identified at the left top of the map.

As you roll your cursor over each of these topics, yellow dots will appear on the map indicating locations you can visit. Photoshop and Image Ready were used to create the rollover effects. Clicking on one of the Resource Issues topics will provide a new page and a similar map of the whole watershed with the specific Resource Issues dot locations named on the map. As an example, please roll over the Resource Issue topics to see the dots appear. Then hold on the Fire and Fuels issue. You will notice a larger pink colored transparent mask appear over parts of John’s Valley and Bear Valley.

Now, click on the Fire and Fuels issue and a new map will appear with dot locations in several sub-watersheds. In addition, there is a new link at the top left of the map for the Sanford Fire 2002. Roll over this link and you will again see the pink transparent mask appear, which is the outline of the Sanford Fire 2002. Now click on this Sanford link and a close up map view of the area that the fire burned will appear on a new page. This is an example of how a new sub topic to Fire and Fuels was integrated into the existing web site design.

Shooting star

Milkweed near East Fork Sevier River.

After doing photography work on three different week long periods starting in 2000 and 2001, Mountain Visions was contracted to return to the Upper Sevier Watershed to photograph the 2002 Sanford Fire area and some of the fire rehabilitation work that was being done. The original DEM map described in the Interactive Journey page of this on-line workshop was used to create another cropped map to show the fire boundary line. Location dots were placed on the map to indicate places where panorama views are available.

This map view is similar to what you will see if you click on any of the other resource issues as well. Location dots with names will allow you to visit 360 degree panorama views in the same way you can in the “Interactive Journey” section. The difference is that the Resource Issue panoramas also contain “hot spots” that will bring up additional pages of specific resource information including text and related images, audio-video sequences, and additional panorama views. For the purposes of this on-line workshop we will demonstrate these features while remaining in the Sanford Fire part of the Fires and Fuels Resource Issues section.

One interesting aspect of this fire photography is that we were able to photograph a few locations both before and after the Sanford Fire. On the Sanford Fire map click on the West Fork Hunt Creek location now to view a “cubic” panorama which shows flooding in the creek after the fire. On the left bottom of that page is another link to two “stacked” panoramas showing both before and after views of the same area. This “stacked panorama” view was created in Photoshop and QuickTime VR Authoring Studio. (See Digital Image Processing and 360º Panoramas workshop topics for links to resources.)

Another, even more dramatic before/after cubic panorama illustration can be found if you go back to the Sanford Fire Map and click on the West Fork Hunt Creek Aspen Burn location. This is the same spot you visited earlier in this on-line workshop during the detailed overview of the Interactive Journey section. Now you see a cubic panorama of the creek after the fire and a subsequent flood event. On the left side of the page is a link to a cubic panorama taken the year before the fire, from exactly the same location. See if you can open both cubic panorama views at the same time as suggested in the text. We decided not to try to have two stacked cubic panoramas on the same page at this time.

Other features built into many of the Resource Issues panoramas throughout the watershed are “hot spot” stories. To illustrate how to use these hot spots, please use the navigation links to go back to the Sanford Fire map now. Toward the top and to the right center of the map you will see the Pine Creek Series location. Please click on this now. The first panorama page shows the Pine Creek 1 location. Notice that there are two more panoramas nearby. Links to these are located on the left bottom of the page.

As you scroll around the Pine Creek 1 panorama you will notice that there are four “hot spot” locations that you are invited to click on. Find the one that invites you to “Click to discuss the Adams Head and Sanford fires” and click on it. The new page that appears provides text and images to describe two planned prescribed fires. There are many similar pages of text and images throughout the entire Resource Issues areas of the watershed sites. Vicki Tyler, part of the Upper Sevier River Watershed Community Group, did extensive background research and wrote almost all of these stories for the web site. She and others also contributed many original images to supplement the text information.

Now go back to the Pine Creek 1 panorama and scroll around to find one more “hot spot” inviting you to “Click here to see aspen resprouting.” Please click on this hot spot now and a new page will appear with explanatory text and pictures on the left side. In addition, on the right side you will see a text description of a video clip you can view. This text and the text and the images to the left give you a good idea of what the video contains. One option is to read this text and go back the panorama or other parts of the web site. Two other options require that you download a QuickTime motion video to view on your monitor. One option is a small sized window that will download reasonably fast on a 56 K modem. Or it will start playing almost immediately with a faster modem such as DSL or cable. The second option provides a much larger window that is much more attractive when viewed, but the download time is only acceptable with a cable, DSL or Satellite Internet connections. The file size is indicated to let the user decide which download option they might choose. There is also a link which will bring up a window with "Video Viewing Instructions". Or they may choose to read the text, not download anything and move back to the panorama or some other location on the web site. The navigation pathway and main navigation bar provide many interactive options for the user.

East Fork Sevier River

Bee Plant

Please click on either one of the smaller or larger motion video files now. A new smaller web window will come up on top of the page and the video file will automatically load and begin to play. Please have your sound speaker turned on to hear Jake Shoppe’s voice. It was a windy day and you hear some wind noise as he describes the issue being discussed. Jake used a wireless microphone and Gary Grimm recorded the audio and video with a 3 chip Sony digital camcorder place on a tripod with a video pan head. This was an unrehearsed live action recording. When possible Gary tried to move the camera toward the topic Jake was describing.

Later, at Mountain Visions studio in Boise, Idaho, the raw digital video footage taken during a three year period in the Upper Sevier Watershed was transferred via firewire to an Apple G4 computer hard drive. A program titled CatDV was used to log the video footage from individual tapes. Video editing programs titled iMovie and Final Cut Pro 3 were used to edit the short video pieces to be used on the web site. Finally, the program titled Cleaner Pro was used to prepare and compress the two different movie sizes for each clip. GoLive was used to place the videos on the pages and make links to open the separate viewing window. (See Basic Digital Video workshop topic for links to resources.)

Note that other web pages you visit in this detailed overview of the on-line workshop may have some of the same page elements described above. Generally these will not be described again on each page. To get a good understanding of all of these features it will be imperative to visit all of the pages in this Detailed Overview section in the order given.

To continue the overview and analysis of the web site template, please choose from the links below.

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