What I liked
I am so thankful and appreciative of the hands on field work we were able to conduct as a team and individually. This experience is something not many people get the opportunity to have and I appreciated every second of it. My crew of all women( 4 students and two leads) worked as the rare plants surveying crew and it was such an experience to have an all women’s crew. It proved to us and others how strong we are trekking through rugged, steep forest in the heat and rain using our knowledge on plants to find, identify, and describe their habitat for later use to better understand rare/sensitive plant communities. This data we collected is so important to the beginning of the restoration of old growth redwood forests as we are the first team to go out and survey the land before anything else can happen to it. This summer is a memory and skill set I will never forget.
