It’s hard to believe I’m more than halfway done with my field season. When you are being challenged, engaged and properly immersed in a project, time flies. The “dreaded” setup week for March was a breeze now that the work is familiar and the workers more efficient and proficient.
The sites being surveyed this month range the gamut. Half are private sites with low percentage forest cover and warm landowners, who send me off with yogurt and pecan snack bags. The other half is dense public forests with rugged bluffs, creeks and abysmal road conditions.
Spring comes early in southern Illinois. Daffodils have started to bloom, the forest is alive with birdcalls and temperatures rising to T-shirt weather – a beautiful thing.
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