What a tiring and amazing day!! We started nice and clean, not knowing what to expect.
And we left being able to identify all these different plants and all muddy!!
Treking through this was pretty fun! But watch out for snakes!
I was given the task of “Data Recorder”, which I really enjoyed because that gave me the time to learn the characterics and shapes of different plant leaves of interest.
I stumbled upon one of the largest beetles I have ever seen while cutting my way through thick blackberry. This darkling beetle was quite a spectacle to watch as it ventured into different parts of a decaying tree.
We spent a long day in the Woodlands Conservancy continuing to survey vegetation transects. Lauren and Kelsey from my group discovered a plant species that hadn’t been found in the conservancy before.
Five maybe? Time flies when you’re out of your mind. As this was the second day in the field, things went much smoother as species identification and machete technique became practiced. Despite blackberry thickets, disturbingly large spiders and general bumps in the road, we managed to finish a few more transects before the sun went down.
Alex Greene today was chopping down blackberry bush. The blackbush in this picture was around 3 meters high. Good job on creating the road for our research Alex.
Today was the first full day of doing restoration research. It was exhausting work filled with blackberry and mosquitoes.
Upon working on our 1100m transect, we ran into a large spider. After finishing this section it calmly went away.
Came across two of these water moccasins today- these are one of the most poisonous snakes in the United States.
