A little lag, but here are some photos of the 4th of July dinner we had. This was on top of the station prepared dinner… so we got to eat dinner twice. Good stuff.
Forth of July Celebration
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Emerald Glassfrog
Centrolenella prosoblepon
Waterfall from Quebrada Cusingo
Río Java draining forest
Salmon-bellied racer!
Mastigodryas melanolomus was my first snake sighting/catch in Las Cruces! I was beginning to get jealous of the snake reports from other mentors and students… But, on the way back from a sampling period today, two of my students, Mel and David, spotted this juvenile (it still has some blotches – adults are more solid) salmon-bellied racer.
Collecting bamboo leaves
Mel, one of my students, is building a study investigating decomposition of leaves from a native tree Miconia appendiculata and an invasive bamboo Phyllostachys makinoi in streams. Here, she’s recruited some others to help her collect bamboo leaves.
Bank erosion at Río Java
Filter feeders
Expanding Las Cruces
OTS Las Cruces is attempting to expand and connect it’s biological reserve to another, more expansive, reserve. Currently, Las Cruces protects about 300 hectares of premontane wet forest, and they are buying surrounding pastures to build a corridor. Here are some recently purchased pastures that are still grazed. I believe, once a restoration plan is established, grazing will the halted.
Río Java – Posa 3
The pool at this sampling site is the deepest yet: approximately 1.2 m. It’s also conveniently just down stream from a bedrock slide… Of course, we’re doing hard field work.
