May 17: oak regeneration!

I started today a little later, to squeeze in one last advisory Dunks run. After a latte that my health conscious father would disapprove of, I felt ready to take on the days challenges (dad it was only five total shots of espresso). I headed up to I08 and I09 to take site data on public property, and found red oak regeneration! Red oak is a very good indicator of Forest health, and is a valuable lumber tree, so it gets cut down often, so it’s good to see some little saplings. After that, I prepped some field gear on campus, specifically 5 meter strings we use to find which trees are in our sites. After that, Laura, Isabel, and I headed up to sites G15 and G14 to take data, only stopping to admire some beautiful bigtooth aspen trees. 

So far I have done 43.4 hours of work on my senior project, and look forward to tomorrow, when I can post photos.