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Growth of Invasive Trees

Part of our work saving the bottomland hardwood forests is quantifying just how bad our invasive woody species actually are.  In that vein, we established a group of marked (natural recruits) invaders out on our Trail C at Woodlands Trail three years ago and have been looking at their demography each year since.  This allows […]

Day 6 

 Today’s southern sunset was amazing. Can’t beat sunsets like this. Especially after a long days work. 

Day 6 

Today was very hot and humid. Sweating a lot for the greater good of New Orleans.  

New swamp friends!

Posted from Fresno, California, United States.     These little guys always put a smile on my face. Happy St. Patrick’s Day from my amphibious swamp buds!  

Day 6: In the thick of it. 

Our transect group taking  measurements deep underneath the blackberry. Getting some good data but trying hard not to get hit by the thorny plants.  

We had some help recording data today :)

Bordered plant bug  Inchworm from the Geometrical family . This little guy landed on our paper hanging from a silk thread. He’s going to make a very handsome moth someday.  Leafcutter ant