I was in quite a rush to finish my last stint as surveyor of tree damage on the ranch. There are 40 transects of about 30 trees apiece that are tagged so that the students can monitor the tree damage occurring over the years. I am sure the end result will be very interesting, as the elephants are definitely having an impact on the vegetation in this safe haven of theirs. However, when it comes down to the actual task of locating these hundreds of trees using a GPS, it is a bit tedious and involves a lot of walking in circles. My plan was to save this task as my last on the ranch before leaving for Kenya, but plans changed as I waited for the crops to grow. Now I am feeling very proud of myself for completing this nit gritty work as not only was it very difficult to trudge through black cotton mud the one day I had the unlucky encounter with a downpour, but as the grass grows, the tick population will exponentially increase.
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