Happy Earth Day!!!

And a Happy Birthday to John Muir, because apparently (and probably intentionally) Earth Day is his birthday.

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like I didn't do "enough" for Earth Day this year. Of course it's hyped up in college (at least in my social circle), and last year I spent a month + planning an event for it, so the fact that there wasn't really anything special going on this year seems...wrong. Of course I do good things for the earth every day with this job. I spent today (like most days for the past month) killing Garlic Mustard. Or rather, working toward its eradication, because I didn't do much direct killing today. I continued my work flagging the border of a huge infestation throughout a drain that flows from one of our contract areas. Trust me, the work is a lot harder than it sounds. The terrain is rough (steep slope) and brushy (man, that place needs to burn!), and in order to delineate any meaningful border you really have to keep zig-zagging up and down the hill to make sure that you're at the true "edge" of the population. Of course there are likely stragglers beyond the border (though for the most part, I tried to encompass such patches, leaving the majority of the stuff far from the flagged boundary). But not many after the thorough searching that I've been doing! Though it is discouraging how little of the linear border I can get done in a work day.

Anyways, just thought that of all days, I should post something on Earth Day. Posts have certainly been few and far between lately, but I'll attribute that to starting a new job in a National Forest without internet access at home (and by home, I mean the trailer where I'm living for free. It's actually pretty nice, I swear!).