Wednesday the 17th

Today is our last day camping at the Welpinit Pow-wow grounds. We woke up early to finish all of our data collection that we needed for our experiments. We learned how to differentiate between soil colors using the Globe and Munsel soil books, how to determine the texture via the ribbon test, and Juan also reminded us that the USDA soil web net will be able to tell us a lot about the soil as well. They then showed us how to use the old school densiometers which have a grid you use to determine the canopy cover in an area. After this we got to use the newer and more advanced CI-110 Plant Canopy Imager, which I have attached a picture of. 
This device was very cool, it auto levels and has a wide fisheye lens so you can take one measurement instead of needing to take N, E, S, and W. It gave us a lot more data such as PAR, average Par, the sunfleck percent, PAR LAI, gap fraction LAI, canopy density, leaf angle, and even our coordinates and bearing. After this we packed up our camp and headed down to our next campground, Harris Park on the south fork Walla Walla. Monet made some great butter chicken and we called it a night!

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