The ice machine is back! It was a tough couple of days, but somehow I made it. I gave Amanda a shopping list for when she went to town today, which included new coffee cups, so hopefully full throttle coffee-breaking will be in action soon.
Also, I’ve resorted to listening to The Finals on ESPN Radio side-by-side with GameCast. Works pretty well, but still not ideal. Take my advice and never leave the world where watching championship sports on any TV is assumed and available.
Today was the first field day of Summer 2008. Dr. Chazdon, Taylor, and Hoi-Fei all joined me to the LEP secondary forest plot. We started out by marking the buffer zone around the plot itself, which will be used for coring trees. That brought us through lunch and until 1:00 p.m. Afterwards, we attempted to learn some tree identification, but proved to be somewhat of a waste of time lacking a local naturalist.
Tomorrow is up in the air. Enrique or Bernal may come out to LEP with me to go through the buffer zone and identify and tag trees belonging to the target species. Feeling pretty good about the project in general, besides the business of obtaining an export permit for wood samples. Might begin coring trees on Monday.
BP
7 comments:
is coring a tree like coring and apple? cause if so I don't think the trees will like that very much
yeah seriously leave the trees alone
did you happen to catch the fights at the sox game last night?
so who thinks casey has ever read any of this blog?
I've read every post Mike, I just don't feel the need to comment on every post.
thats better than me, i have not read all the maine ones... and jsut so you know the point of blogs is for entertainment mostly so fun post are good, the other part that they are for is to know that ben is still alive. like we thoguht you were dead for a while there in austrilia when we had not heard from you in liek 2 weeks
sort of interesting that the first post in three weeks without pictures got the most comments in the history of the blog. more people should start blogs! so i have something to read!
peace -paulie
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