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July 1, 2007 : Intermountain Expedition: First Day, First Collection
Day one is over, and it's been smooth sailing so far. Today was primarily a travel day, so there wasn't much opportunity to photograph or collect seeds. Brent and I drove nearly 1000km (600 miles) from Burnaby, BC to Caldwell, Idaho (and had a 2 hour border line-up wait as well), with the day starting at 5:30am for me and now finishing sometime around 1am. Tomorrow will be a bit more relaxed, as we have less than half that distance to travel to Elko, Nevada.
We did stop at the scenic overlook southeast of Ellensburg to gawk at some Eriogonum species. For a bit of a lark (and to test some things out, like our GPS and map plotting systems), Brent did end up collecting seeds from one species – Erigeron linearis, which I featured on BPotD a few days ago.
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at July 1, 2007 12:29 AM
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