Day 6

 good morning we are up early  and having our breakfast when  are done with the usually eating and making lunches we will go meet up with a botanist. we are on the road now heading to the spot that i don't know the name of just yet. we been driving for a hour now almost to our detonation and i can say we are out in the middle of nowhere it looks like if we was down in a part of arizona is what it reminded me of and thought that was nice. but honestly i think it was the pumice rocks that drew me back cause in Arizona they have cinder rocks that looks the same have a pores looks to them but the difference is pumice rocks actually are the only type of rock that can float and pumice is white not a maroon red like the cinder rocks. we got to meet our botanist her name is marlo fisher she will be showing us how to do a rare plant survey. we all lined up in the first field that is home to a rare plant called pumus moonwart scientific name botrichium pumicola this part of the fern family and normally these plants live by the water but not this one its growing in desert type conditions but recently she noticed that the moonwart has been depleting. so we are her to survey some land to see if we can find them in a field  where cattle have grazed we walked probaby about a quarter mile into the field and maybe only found like 5 of the rare plants. so marlo had a new plan after no finding much in this section that we move over to a inclosure where there was not cattle grazing in hopes to find more then a couple. we lined up and surveyed down the inclosure feild and i found probably 15 but all together as a unit we found 108!!!! that's way more then what we found it the open sight. this enclose isn't the biggest but maybe they should fence off all the land where they grow so no cattle and eat this rare indigenous plant.we did this from about 11-2 helping her find these plants and mark them with a pink flag. i left out that wwe had lunch at noon them made our way to this enclosed field. we wrapped up and heading  to dr. blacks friend's house joy who is kind enough to let all us shower there feels good to shower in good water after this we are heading back to camp to do a lab with dr.shuster. we got back to the camp site and are gonna go down to the lake and take a sample of the water and test the ph level and the conductivity of the lakes water. after this we will eat dinner then continue the lab. now we are finishing up the lab and this process we are doing is called bacteria culturing me and gilberto used his sample from blockhouse creek. the agaar plate shows it looks grainy and like as if there's another layer like its risen above the bottom layer. my samples wasn't like gilbertos but one from snow plow creek looked a little cloudy and had one little colony of growth on it and around it had like a glossy look. my other sample which is from the blockhouse creek had no growth so there was nothing to report and i am glad cause i got my head wet and drank straight from the stream everyone thought it was gross but my grandma said they lived off of mountain water and if its running and clear and blue its drinkable ,she always said if we get lost don't be scared we have everything we need here in the forest. we are packin up the lab and below will be some pictures.