In the news: UOG project to deploy drones for reforestation gets featured in The Washington
Post
In the news: UOG project to deploy drones for reforestation gets featured in The Washington
Post
In the news: UOG project to deploy drones for reforestation gets featured in The Washington
Post
11/6/2023
A drone operator from the UOG Sea Grant Guam Restoration of Watersheds (GROW) initiative
prepares to launch a seed deployment in southern Guam in an effort to replant in formerly
forested areas ravaged by erosion and wildfires.Could seed-sowing drones transform ravaged landscapes?
By Allyson Chiu
INALÅHAN, Guam — The drone’s propellers whirred to life, blurring as they picked up
speed and filling the air with a mechanical buzzing. Within seconds, the large buglike
contraption was rising high above a largely barren stretch of red clay soil — one
of many that run like scars through the rolling hills in the southern part of the
island.
