The first few days of camp were filled with orientation activities, a site tour, and safety lectures. Our first proper week of hard-core fieldwork commenced Monday, and focused on vegetation assessment suitable for environmental monitoring and rangeland management. Students learned how to work vegetation plots and transects, as well as to assess canopy density and ground cover. Not so easy under the African sun and with all sorts of thorny plants, but everyone did quite well.
Identifying and measuring structural characteristics of very thorny vegetation
Plants bite here -- thorns of the nasty Acacia erioloba
Part of Team Turbo Bush measuring heights along the transect
Part of Team Bush Bosses working Plot 1
Estimating stem counts for shrubs
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