On the last full day at Camp Delany we went around Table Rock to Deep Lake to study the change in vegetation from riparian woodland to sagebrush steppe.
Jillian and Oren taking a vegetation survey and trying to figure out what kind of bush they're looking at (SOOOooo not an easy thing to do).
A praying mantis...
We finally spotted some ducks in the lake and Jillian and Rebecca are trying to identify what they are. We think they're female mallards, but we're still not sure.
Rebecca...
Bird spotting, this time it was a pair of red tailed hawks.
Grass inventory. This is a ravine off of the main lake that we stumbled upon. The ravine is a large salt flat. The water is super inundated with salt, dries up, and leave a bed of salt that looks like ash. The plants around it were salt grass (clever name, I know) and greaswood, both adapted to the intensely salty conditions.
Noah and Oren are trying to figure out what type of soil is in this ravine the high tech way. All you do is take some dirt in your hand, mix it with some water and see what consistency it becomes. This was clay.
That's my shaddow on the salt.
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