The past two weeks we have been imaging all 3,300 vouchers in the Medford BLM’s herbarium as part of a project funded by the University of Washington. This project’s ultimate goal is to digitize herbaria throughout the Pacific Northwest and get these resources into the public eye. We spent many repetitive hours placing vouchers (some dating all the way back to the 1920’s) into a photo light box and sinking up voucher accession number to the online database.

Even though the work we did was for a greater good, I am glad to say we are finally back out in the field and it is amazing how quickly things can change in such a sort time.  It looks like we will be starting to collect seed from many species starting next week and the second round of flowers that weren’t in bloom a month ago are now showing their faces.

a molting cicada

voucher in the light box

Calochortus tolmiei (pussy ears)