Hi 4B & 4G
I can't believe another day has gone by. It started really well. I was taking an early morning walk and I saw seven deer! They were really beautiful. It happened so fast I didn't have my camera out!

We didn't work where I thought we were going to work. We did some identifying and mapping trees in a huge 16 hectare plot (you were right, it is 100 meters by 100 meters, 10,000 square meters). It is a part of a big study comparing forests in different places all around the world! I heard Harvard Forest is going to be a part of this study too!It was a nice forest, but I miss those hemlock trees. There are a few evergreens, like cedars, lodgepole pines, and these really cute little holly trees. The scientist told me they do have hemlocks more inland in Maryland, and they sadly do have woolly adelgid.

Gillian, that was a good idea looking at branch structure, but we looked at something else to help us identify trees.



Some of the trees like the beech trees still have leaves. The sweet gum trees have those little prickley seed balls on them, so they're easy to ID.
After lunch we climbed up a big weather tower. It had all kinds of instruments up there. What kinds of measurements do you think they would take up there (besides temperature)? It was fun to be above the tree canopy.






It was good to read all your comments and questions. You are right, the bay is salt water. A lot of different kinds of fish live there. Shellfish, too. Tsara, I did get your e mail, and I am thinking of you all, and I miss you too. Talk to you soon!! Ms. Bennett