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Technology

Technology can be a beautiful thing, especially when it helps you get more enjoyment out of your woodlot. Learn how to make a customized map of your property with the MyWoodlot Mapping tool. Use smartphone apps like Avenza to navigate your property or iNaturalist to identify plants and animals. We also have blogs about using trail cameras to capture up-close pictures and videos of wildlife.

Using the iNaturalist App to (Almost) Solve a Mystery

What is THAT?! Use the free, powerful iNaturalist app to help identify what you find in the woods.

Online Scouting and Map Making with MyWoodlot’s Watershed Mapping Tool

Learn how to create a georeferenced PDF map of your NYC Watershed property, or one of the many NYC Watershed Recreation lands, in just three steps.

Mapping My Woodlot with my Smartphone

Screen shot of an Avenza map on a smartphone showing a topographic map, parcel boundary, and logging roads, some of which have been mapped by turning on the GPS tracking feature and walking the trails.

Smartphone mapping apps are an easy way to become more familiar with your woodlot.

Installing Trail Cameras for the First Time

This week on MyWoodlot.com, Kris Brown shares his first experience with setting up trail cameras on public land in the Catskills.

Creating Your Own Smartphone Map

Creating your own georeferenced .pdf map allows you to customize a map of your property to use on your smartphone.

Checking the Trail Cameras for the First Time

One week had passed since I installed trail cameras on public land in the Catskills. Was I the only animal that had stopped by?