2nd day is data collection

Today was an easier hike out to our collection site. Probably cause we knew what we were getting into. We sampled in abandon pasture which may have been like 10-15 years ago. In our Macroinvertebrate sample we saw crabs, mayflies, stoneflies, and caddisfly larva. So our habitat we riparian zone we were able to see plants that were good indicators that there was some tree removal in the past because they are to first to grow when the sunlight is able to reach the ground. Along the hike to our site, we saw some wild bananas and we opened one up and it smelled like cucumbers.





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