Great day! Kristin and I got tons of work done and found some really good seedling candidates for the transplant experiment. Not to mention, we found some incredible non-edible mushroom specimens. Note the huge Giant Laughing Mushroom pictured above, (Gymnopilus spectabilis), it was about a foot or so tall and was named as such because in Asia the species has a degree of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, yet in the U.S. or at least in the west it is deactivated in the species. We finished up all the abiotic data in plot 1 today besides the canopy photos. It's damn hard to get a good stretch of time on the coast where the sun doesn't wash out the photo so I'm left with an hour or so in the morning and maybe a little more than that in the afternoon. I also learned to keep my stupid head down and out of the photo. Usually I'm trying to get it into the picture. Not so much this time. It's going pretty smoothly though, so I hope to get the first plot done by at least tomorrow evening. Kristin has been a super awesome companion to have on the trip. A best friend with a great work ethic and really good ideas on utilizing time in the best way possible. I'm lucky to have her. That's all for today, need to wake up around 5:45 or so tomorrow. Out to the plot by 7.
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