Forestry is a hard job. It gets hot. It gets cold. Rain. Snow. Mud. Snakes. Ticks. Mosquitoes. Thorns. Homesickness.
It's also a hard job not to love. When you hike in the woods for a living, you come across some pretty neat things. And that makes all the bad stuff worth it.
I was coring this tree and apparently it was fully pressurized
Sometimes they're full of water
Got a great view of the Grand Canyon while doing forest inventory on the south rim
A wolf spider with her egg sack
A blooming cactus
Arizona walnut, all by itself in a pine forest.
I walk around with a metal rod strapped to my back, what could go wrong?
Brown rot reveals the tree's younger self
I spotted this heard and practiced my stalking, getting withing 20 yards.
Bird condominium
This poor guy keeps trying, but ain't doin so hot
Sometimes you get bored in the field and give your mustache grass extentions
I was reading in my camper and something bopped my head. I named him Santiago.
#1 pup
Would you hug that guy to measure diameter? I took a gamble that the inspector also would vote no
This is blackberry. Most people do not understand the horror
I named him Marvin
This is a pitch tube, a sure sign a tree has bark beetles
Garland Prairie
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