Im suffering from a big case of nostalgia today after this trip and working there so many years and didnt take nearly enough photos.

Collected additional peat material for a planned incubation experiment and a sampling for survey of black spruce tree needle endophyte composition accross warming treatments.

Forest Service will phase out 9 Regional Offices…The current stand-alone Research Stations will be consolidated into a single location in Fort Collins

That’s not how entropy works. Please revisit the 2nd law of thermodynamics. You can play a video in reverse all you like but this is not a real thing.

Good paper on this from 2006 but not clear whether they were introduced or got here on their own. - 2/2 scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcont....

Looking nice and healthy! I will be doing the same next week in Washington State. Targeting 6000 trees in replicated GWAS drought experiment! 🤓