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TwoDog Forest Inventory Suite: PocketDog Exporter for ArcMap®

(Pittsfield, NH) December 8, 2009—Fountains America, a forest management, land brokerage, and GIS services company based in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, announces the first direct link between ArcMap and the TwoDog Forest Inventory Suite through the PocketDog Exporter for ArcMap®.

PocketDog Exporter installs as a toolbar within ArcMap and enables the user to export stand and point attributes stored in the GIS to PocketDog or for email to remote personnel. Exportable stand attributes include a stand identifier, stand stratification, acreage, and a tract identifier. Point attributes include the point number and the ability to designate each point as volume or basal area when conducting point double samples. All these attributes are then available in PocketDog complete with inventory points stratified into the proper stands. Once in PocketDog there is no longer a need to manually create stands or point numbers and properly allocate points into stands. Simply pick from a point list and enter tree data.

The Exporter will improve inventory organization and mission planning by allowing the user to create multiple PocketDog files based on attributes in the stands layer. Create individual PocketDog files based on map ID, compartment, stand number, cover type, or even the intended timber cruiser. Harness the power of ArcMap by only exporting the selected records in your stand and point layers. Managers are able to plan their inventories and create PocketDog files ready for distribution to inventory personnel.

PocketDog Exporter will greatly reduce inventory startup time, data entry errors, and the amount of time needed to validate data returning from the field. This utility will ensure time in the woods is spent measuring trees and that field data matches GIS data.

Visit the Fountains America website for a video demonstration: www.fountainsamerica.com/twodog/

About the TwoDog Forest Inventory Suite of Products:

TwoDog is a forest inventory software suite used by natural resource managers to collect and process data to help make informed forest management decisions and to provide accurate timber valuation. TwoDog provides a robust suite of functions in a highly customizable package. The software suite provides accurate timber volume calculations in the office and field. In addition to timber volumes, TwoDog has been designed to enable data collection and process information on a wide range of non-timber variables of interest to natural resource managers.

For more information, please contact: Scott Reaves, TwoDog Sales and Service Fountains Forestry 1668 Oak Ridge Turnpike Oak Ridge, TN 37840 865-719-9442 www.fountainsamerica.com/twodog/ twodog@fountainsamerica.com

Fountains America Acquires TwoDog Brand Forest Inventory Software

(Pittsfield, NH) June 30, 2009—Fountains America, a forest management, land brokerage, and GIS services company based in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, announces that it has acquired TwoDog forestry software from Foresters Incorporated.

TwoDog is a forest inventory software package used by natural resource managers to collect and process data to help make informed forest management decisions and to provide accurate timber valuation. Created in 1993 by Foresters Incorporated, TwoDog provides a robust suite of functions in a highly customizable package. The software bundle provides accurate timber volume calculations in the office and field. In addition to timber volumes, TwoDog has been designed to enable data collection and process information on a wide range of non-timber variables of interest to natural resource managers.

Both office and field versions of the software are available. OfficeDog runs on your PC and provides extensive custom inventory design and setup tools along with data entry, calculation and reporting functions. PocketDog runs on Windows Mobile based handheld computers as a data collector, providing up-to-now summaries and statistics in the field. The graphical interface and touch screen streamline and simplify data collection in an intuitive manner requiring little to now training for field personnel.

Britt Boucher, President and Senior Forester of Foresters Incorporated, commented that “TwoDog is one of the most established of this type of software and we are pleased that Fountains America will be continuing that reputation.”

About Fountains America:
Established in the UK in 1957 as Fountain Forestry, and incorporated in the US in 1980, Fountains America provides complete forest management, land brokerage, and GIS services to an international roster of investors, institutions, corporate and private landowners, and conservation groups. Specialties include sustainable forestry and forest certification, investment due diligence, forestland appraisal, timber valuation, custom GIS applications, and the sale of forestland in the eastern US. With 10 offices throughout the US from Tennessee to Maine and a staff including professionally licensed foresters, real estate and GIS staff, Fountains is well known and respected throughout all sectors of the timberland industry, government regulators, and conservation groups. Fountains America is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fountains PLC, an environmental service company quoted on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.

For more information, please contact:
David J. Daut, President, Fountains Forestry Inc.
7 Green Mountain Drive, Suite 3
Montpelier, VT 05602-2708 USA
802 223 8644 ext. 27
david.daut@fountainsamerica.com

Fountains Forestry Inc., Fountains Land Inc. and Fountains Spatial Inc. are subsidiaries of Fountains America Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Fountains Group, based in the UK.

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