Today continued hot 105F.. 55 days over 100F this summer.. new (or near?) record.. plus 7 more days at 99. More 100+ coming. Trees in OWP are dying. Green ash, some elm, some hackberry.. young 20-30 yr old trees in the understory and along NW end of dune.
Out to the Woods this Saturday morning in the NW entrance. I dug a two foot hole in the center of the dry west pond and planted an 8 foot 4x4 inch cedar post for a staff gauge (donation from Bob Nairn). Goal is to get gauge set to monitor changes in water depth (when water returns). Dry caramel brown-colored organic mud in west pond bottom, above wet black muck/ mud about 6 inches down. Took aluminum pole to east pond for same purpose. I marked it off in half foot lengths. Top of each orange paint band at bottom of blue tape interface equals half foot marks. Pole has 10 increments for 5 feet from bottom of dry pond to top of pole. Borrowed bolt cutters from George and cut away fence wire across trails. A week ago discovered another Carpenter post laying flat and partly buried along the Main Southwest Trail at the blue arrow tree. Should be about location of B9 on Carpenter's original grid.. approx 200' east of Chautauqua fence (paced). I took sledge hammer and drove post back in place.
Returned late at 7 PM to finish. One seed tick, one mosquito by East Pond, no deer. Dogs have returned to Woods. Chris S. at Treatment Plant says he saw pack two days ago in the Woods. I heard dog(s) howling in southeast Woods. Tibicen dog day cicadas are singing. Still several Catocala moths on pecan by Tall Stump and several Hackberry emperors on tree boles.
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