The
Plant and Mapping group finished our map of "Mixed 1," perhaps the most
difficult patch at Leaves and Lizards.
We had woken up to a dark, gray and stormy Costa Rica at 5:30 this
morning and in the hour and a half of sampling, not much had changed. Stumbling down the side of "Mixed 1," Adaire
and I plotted a number of points to form the map. Lacking any of my field gear and (more
importantly), lacking a waterproof notebook, I tallied the Melina trees on my
left hand (see below). Often getting a
point for the Trimble took some time (up to 20 minutes in heavier forest). Nevertheless, we are glad to have finished
the map of the patch.
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