June 2020 Observations and Field Notes

Milkweed, cottonwood, bur oak, killdeer, NUTNET, llamas

Arrowleaf balsamroot canvassed Little Baldy until the end of June.

Lupine blooms proliferated on stout stalks.

Cottonwood seeds filled the air and landed like snow throughout the floodplain.

We leased four llamas for the summer.

This mother killdeer laid four speckled eggs in the middle of a moss study in the experimental garden.

We finished collecting plant biomass for this year’s work on the NUTNET project

It has been an unusual, cold, and wet field season.

A few small bur oak acorns began to swell on this six-year-old tree,

Endless fields of sainfoin fatten this small bachelor herd.