The final month of our field season and our time as interns for the Chicago Botanic Garden has finally arrived. I am both sad that this is the end of a great time that I’ve had in the field in Arizona but excited for the adventures that are next in store. Over the past few weeks, we did a final field trip day at Dude Creek, where we worked with Arizona Fish and Game and the Arizona Conservation Corps Tonto Crew to survey for riparian plants such as alders and sycamores. We also got to see a Gila trout and Chiricahua Leopard frog! We visited Globe for final collections and did some invasive/rare species monitoring near Payson. Currently, we are in the midst of closing up shop and sending our lovely seeds out to their next home in Santa Fe.