Census Finished!

Over winter break i mad a seven day trip out to the island and made some huge progress on my research.  Brice and I finished our census of the BIshop pine trees, there were about 2200 trees, and now its time to analyze data.    While I was on the island i also collected seeds from 25 different trees that I am going to use in a common garden experiment.  I still have to travel up north to a stand of Bishop pines in Lompoc to gather seeds from 25 more trees in order to do a comparison of mainland trees to the Santa Rosa population.  This garden is going to be a long hard experiment but i will keep you updated with all the fun.

The weather was pretty intense out there this trip as well, finally got some surf on this side of the island.