Soggy Woods Soil Fungi and Chainsaw

Back to the Woods briefly this Thursday morning at 8:30, the NW Ponds entrance. There was one large hackberry top broken across and blocking the northern end of Hackberry Alley and 15-20 smaller tops, boles and branches along the lower end of the SW trail and the West Trail that needed clearing. The water is now gone from the SW trail but the footing is soggy mucky mud. The NW pond is at 2.22 ft. the East Pond is at 2.48 ft. I saw one deer at the north end of Hackberry Alley and one turtle by the big walnut tree near the west jct of the NW Trail and the Ravine trail.
Near the SW Gate I ran into Jarrod and Elizabeth and Sarah taking a soil core looking for interesting new fungi and/or other spp. Jarrod mentioned finding 169 species of fungi in decayed organics at the base of the old fallen cottonwood tree # 99.. published in J. Nat. Products; Du et al 2012.
As I left, I saw Heather M's car by the NE Gate. So good to see people using the Woods.