Yesterday, Janelle G. and Shelby F. helped me do the May census on the Hegg Lake plot of my local adaptation experiment. There were some surprises, including 3 or 4 NEW seedlings!
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Another surprise was a visit from this fawn.
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Another interesting discovery was a cluster of egg sacs. Anybody know what critter would leave these?
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Today and tomorrow we plan to census the two South Dakota plots that are part of this experiment.

Cool. Those are the first documented seedlings from a seedbank. I wonder if they are local origin.