To that end, significant local knowledge of the area – particularly historical understandings – will also prove vital in this process. In addition to valuable local knowledge held by FCT staff, Dr. Stuart White, local resident of over 25 years, and owner of the Mazar Wildlife Reserve in the southwest portion of the NDA, has created a valuable annotated aerial print copy that identifies known native forest, páramo, pine plantations, cultivos, and other disturbed areas, as well as notes on known burns, plowed areas, and secondary forest. These annotated prints are being used as a guide not only for classification of the area included in the print, but also to guide further visual classification in other areas. Finally, ground-truthing will inevitably be required for some areas.