Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Adventure Scientists - Timber tracking

 



Goal: Identify Black Walnut trees and extract core, leaf, and twig samples


Some notes:

  1. Make sure you don't sign up to sample from private land. Use the GaiaGPS app's shading feature to determine if a piece of land is private or public.
  2. Identifying Black Walnut trees is pretty hard; use the iNaturalist app to determine if there are any previous sightings of Black Walnut trees - you need to cross-verify if those sightings are unsampled.
  3. Extracting the leaves and twigs is very hard; extracting the core is probably the easiest thing to do. Make sure they send you a borer tool.