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Biological technician Peter Nelson takes a wood core sample from a spruce tree, which will be mounted and sanded and analyzed for annual patterns of growth over its lifetime.
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Biologist versus mosquito. Head to toe clothing is a must when conducting field work here. Botanist Sarah Stehn measures the diameter of a spruce tree in the western lowlands of Denali NP.
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Biological technicians James Walton and Jedediah Brodie collect plant cover data in the Toklat Basin ecoregion of Denali NP during the first season of fieldwork for this project in 2001.
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Carl Roland and Peter Nelson collect plant cover data near Kankone Peak in the Kantishna Hills in 2006.
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The joy of random plots... Monitoring vegetation in Denali National Park. Janet Prevey holds up randomly-located quadrat for measurement in the Riley Creek area!
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Plant ecologist Carl Roland collects soil temperature and moisture data while performing soil sampling protocol in Denali NP.
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Carl Roland and Peter nelson collect plant diversity and composition data in the western lowlands of Denali NP.
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Working hard in the backcountry of Denali has it's perks -- this view! Duke Brady, Jamie Martin, and Sarah Stehn stop to pose for a quick photo.
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Obstacle course? Nope, just one of the 1100 study plots sampled in this study. Biologist Fleur Nicklen does her best to navigate around trees to document every species.