Monday started off slow. The forecast had rain showing up in the morning. I woke up around 6:50 and left the house around 7:30 just five minutes after sunrise. It was pretty cold! After I got to work, I had barely beat the rain, I grabbed tools and walked up the hill behind our office to prune some apple trees. It started to rain after about a half hour and I went inside. Guill, the Botanist, who discovered a considered to be extinct whale in Antarctica and has work in the Smithsonian's own collection, showed me how to clean some Allium seed. I worked on the for nearly two hours. Its a long process breaking the plant slowly down until you have just the seed which is stored and planted in time to come. After the Allium I worked on Dico-something and did the same thing, collecting the seeds. A local high school came to some TNC land monday and worked on clearing an old fence out of a pasture. I went along with Matt and helped teach them about the burn we had the previous week, and some of the trees along the fence line that were invading the pasture. They worked for nearly an hour in the rain, some clearly did not want to be there, but they got a ton done! Matt and I took the metal from the fence to a recycling center and then went back to TNC office. I rode my bike to ultimate practice. It was a sick practice, the captains were trying to teach some of the freshman, and new kids how to lay out (dive and catch the disc). We had an intense scrimmage, it seems like the U of O is playing pretty hard this year, they want to do well. So in the last 30 minutes of practice it started raining pretty hard so my bike ride home was in wet clothes.
Today I woke up around seven, like I normally do, and set off to bike to work. I figured that it was 5.6 miles to work. This morning however it was so foggy! In the hills I could barely see 100 feet in front of my face! When I got to the bike trail I took this picture, it was in the valley though...not as much fog.
When I got to work it was pretty yucky out so I just went straight to seed cleaning. After an hour or so of that I went along with Matt to a Presentation at the Eugene Public Works Offices on Grass Specific Herbicides and how they help restoration, and don't harm rare native plants species that grow amongst the grass. I got a good bit of information out of the meeting. Useful information, I have to put a presentation together on the specific herbicides to present to the same group. After the meeting I went back to the Office and cleaned seed for a good while. I got some crazy allergies from the Dico-something species...been sneezing all day! But I went to the climbing gym after work till pretty late.
My legs are getting used to the biking... 18ish miles today? Hopefully I can play at the tournament this weekend, with U of O down in California. But if I do, I know my legs are going to need some serious rest before any more biking!
Basically, everything inside of the orange perimeter was seeded with native grasses. The highlighted zones were hand seeded by Jason and I, each color represents a different species planted. It was neat working with so much land. Normally working with the earth is small scare, and working with a field that is as big as 42 acres takes a lot of team work. 
