Hello. This week was particularly interesting and brought really a lot of new experience and knowledge even in comparison to the last couple months of being here. For the first time this year, and actually personally for me, we performed a fire rehabilitation monitoring survey in Alpine Co, CA – a procedure that takes about 7-9 hours of work for the team of 7 people. It is impressive – how much of accurate and precise data you acquire, and, in addition, it happens every year. For me it is a truly valuable and unforgettable experience, since the whole idea of fire rehabilitation monitoring is based on the precision of measurements, and I must say – we did our best in performing our tasks. With the feeling of responsibility (which was predominant in our attitude) everything was done with confidence and in high quality, regardless of hot weather and tons of prickly tumbleweed. In addition, the place where we were working and camping was beautiful and charming – completely different from the typical Great Basin sagebrush steppe. The Indian Creek Campground with dominant Pinus geffreyi and Pinus monophylla, plus water reservoir, is a great place to observe wildlife which is flourishing there. Probably, overall I could call this week as a super productive, with so far the biggest portion of new experiences and excitement (e.g. hunting Osprey), and, of course, completed work. Hope that our oncoming activities will be even more and more interesting, and based on what we’ve been doing I guess it’ll be so.

Farewell,

Andrii

Carson City, BLM