Posts tagged “Michigan”

Prairie Fen

Also at MacCready Reserve is a prairie fen restoration project. Before I visited the reserve, I had never heard of a prairie fen. That’s pretty sad, because prairie fens are awesome.  Lots of people get excited about them because of their insect diversity, but I was more excited about the plants! First of all, what […]

Fieldwork

I took a course this summer that required quite a bit of fieldwork.  Toward the end of the class, we split into small groups and planned our own projects.  My group wanted to ask about forest succession.  We went on an exploratory jaunt through the Michigan State University’s Experimental Forest the first day of the […]

This summer I’ll be

Measuring tree rings from May 9th to June 15th Taking classes at MSU from June 15th to August 1st Having a blast at ESA from August 1st to August 8th Back to tree rings and classes on the 9th But we should go hiking some weekend!