July 24 & July 25.
This week we worked alongside the Aquatic Wildlife and Fisheries crew as well as the Botany crew at the Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forests & Pawnee Grassland (USFS, ARP).
On Monday, we hiked up to a control site to compare the habitat and fish population to that of a burn site. We did this in order to see the affects that the wildfire had on the ecosystem in the area. To create a population survey, we conducted electrofishing and completed a water quality test using a YSI.
Photos of electrofishing (left) and measuring and weighing the fish we caught (right).
On Tuesday, we practiced seed collecting in the Pawnee National Grassland with some of the CNHP botany crew. We learned the proper technique to collect grass seed with a goal of 10,000-20,000 seeds for the day. The grass species we collected from was called Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis).
Photo of Jennifer Singer collecting grass seed taken by Calea Cruz.
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