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Boating across open water in Whitewater Bay.
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A wall of mangrove roots line a canal bank in Everglades National Park.
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Map of the Everglades, with a red line showing path traveled for the field day.
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Alli Zahorec collecting data on prairie plants at the LTER MCSE
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A fuelbreak in the black spruce forests. Fuelbreaks are great at preventing fires from spreading, but removing trees has serious ecological implications.
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The author uses vegetation plots to study which species return first in cut Black Spruce forests.
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The dense Black Spruce forests at the Bonanza Creek LTER—Christmas Trees, if you will.
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“Bambi” the decommissioned military tanker truck and Konza Prairie’s hardest worker (artistic liberties taken).
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A view from the Konza Prairie Biological Station at dusk.
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Nina Ferrari and Mark Schulze pack up equipment at a tree instrumented for bird surveys at the Andrew’s Forest. Nina’s graduate student work has trees instrumented across the forest, many of which burned in the Lookout Fire.
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