Measuring and Mapping the Woods

This afternoon Lance and I began measuring and mapping the Woods trails. Beginning at the NE gate, foot-long stakes cut from cedar branches were placed every 50 meters down to the Elm Bridge (`290 m).. across the orange E-W Fence Trail; past Tall Stump (another 200 m) to the end of the orange trail and the jct with the yellow Main SW Trail (~650 m total).
Then on to the SW Gate for a new zero point and we placed stakes out to the end of the yellow trail at the Beaver Dam (500 m).
Then on to the S Boundary and a new zero at Carpenter's G10 post. We placed stakes north across the white Dune trail to the Dam (100 m) .. then up Hackberry Alley to jct with green Trans OWP trail (340 m total).
We saw no large animals but I thought I heard two deer moving off west of Hackberry Alley. The pools of water along the Main SW trail were almost entirely gone but the soil was quite damp and there was plenty of water all along the Western Wash.
Four tiny seed ticks < 1 mm and one larger young tick.