Tuesday, April 29, 2008

April 17-29th

I hate Windows Vista. For the past week it has made my projects mostly impossible to do. From what I hear, im not the only one. Anyways, everything is figured out now, and I have ArcGIS finally working. The wildlife group started working on our Power Point for the presentation at the NPS headquarters next month. It is coming along well, but we need some more pictures for the slides, hopefully Robert Knapp will have some. That’s all for now!

-Gus

Thursday, April 17, 2008

spring break - april 17th

Over spring break I went out with the otter crew a few times to look for new latrine sites and to check trap. One trip that stands out in my mind was the last trip I took with the group. We were checking snares in the vicinity of the Lower Elwha Reservation. The day started off nice and sunny, and we were consistantly finding hair and scat at traps. Yet, around lunch time the weather took a turn for the worse and started to get cold and windy. When we were checking the last trap it started to snow, and of course the trap had been sprung and had tons of hair in it that needed to be collected. That was... not too fun.

-Gus