Data Collection

This trip to Santa Rosa Island over the past week was a very productive trip. I’ve not only figured out a stronger heading to follow with my project but I’ve also finished a large piece of my project when it comes to data collection. Zack and I have finished the census for the Bishop Pines. All trees have been counted not only on Black mountain but also on the peak of radar hill and a small group in Windmill Canyon. Total count without Dulce’s work comes out to about 2207 trees. All that is left for me to do is to core an approximate of 30 random trees and find the correlations of age and DBH, and the correlation of growth times to weather using weather reports that date back to the early 1900s.