sorry it’s been so long. this week was crazy - freezing cold temperatures over the weekend and into the beginning of the week; 2 days of intense auguring to get all 19 lakes re-tested after the cold snap (there was about a 5 cm increase in ice thickness during the weekend’s -40 degree Fahrenheit weekend), and then 2 straight days of beaver survey that included miles and miles of hiking just to get to the areas we were surveying. It was intense. Oh and I pulled something in my ankle Monday so all this was done on an unhappy ankle. heh
anyway, we are now finished gathering data (beaver and otherwise) and I am currently sitting in the lab/library working on writing our paper. we had our winter tree identification quiz yesterday (it was SO much fun. truly. kind of like a treasure hunt. ;)) and this morning we tried to core Ozawindib lake but the plexiglass part of the coring rod came detached and we lost it in the lake (oops) so instead we took pictures by the headwaters and at our cabin in our long underwear (hilarious. they’re posted below. we’ve had some great photoshoots.) and came back to write. i’d better get back to that…
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