U.S. Forest Service

FILE - A grove of Giant Sequoia trees grows in Mountain Home State Demonstration Forest outside Springville, Calif., on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. The U.S. Forest Service is taking emergency action to speed up approval of projects to clear underbrush in giant sequoia groves to save the world's largest trees from the increasing threat of wildfire. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Using data, revolutionary Sammies finalist sees forest for the trees

Robert McGaughey revolutionized the U.S. Forest Service’s ability to visualize aerial surveillance data as useful information.

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U.S. Forest Service, Sammies

Success comes from ‘all the wood behind one arrowhead’

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