This first picture will remind me of my visit to SERC. I have been thrilled to be here, but now I am ready to be home and back at school. Today I am blogging a few remaining photos about topics I haven't yet brought to your attention.

Exotic species abound here as in Indiana. This picture shows honeysuckle climbing up a vine of poison ivy. Honeysuckle has been planted for its sweet scent as an edge species, but like other invasives, it just takes over and grows over everything.

The thorny vines below belong to the exotic invasive multiflora rose. It was brought in to create

a beautiful natural hedge to keep cattle from roaming but it spreads easily and dominates. I di d not realize that it can grow in the shade of a young forest.

Have you ever heard that you can use moss as a compass in the woods? It CAN be true, but there are other factors that can cause moss to grow elsewhere on trees. I would use the sun and a compass long before I relied on moss. However, below are two pictures of one tree: the first is the north side and the second is the southside. So in this case the addage would work.

Another study taking place involves the watershed. Pictured below is a stream flow monitoring

station. Can you figure out how it works?