Monday, 6/2

- Finally, a day where the majority of it was not actually spent sitting around in the dark VC. Did some garlic mustard (invasive species) removal at Chapman's State Park, which meant "weeding the forest", as Morgan said. Garlic mustard is really easy to identify and comes out of the ground really easily, so it really wasn't that bad. The forest was mostly Paw Paw trees, so there wasn't anything spiky to run into and the ground was mostly poison ivy free. At one point, we were wading through a lot of waist-high grass, which led to everyone but me being covered in ticks (though i did find my first one when i got home, happily attached).

Garlic Mustard:


- Animal sightings: A half-dead black rat snake lying on the road... Tara had to put it out of its misery. It was pretty intense. Also, Kristin found what seemed to be a hognose snake (our first one), still alive.