June 16

Hey everyone were back in South Carolina again. We decided to come down two days earlier than we had planned because we got word that our third site was almost approved, all we had to do was get the GPS coordinates and hand them in, then we could start digging. We got up at 5 to get an early start to our day. We went to the Long Tin site and looked under all of the cover boards. Usually this will take us about 2 hours today it was maybe 30 minutes. We did not see one single lizard and we don’t know why. Then we had to meet up with Bess who is with SREL so we could get our GPS coordinates. The plan was to go to the back of Long Tin (which is a piece of land set aside for research). When we got to the back we found out that the Forestry Service had cut down a lot of trees, everywhere. There was not one acre (which is all we need) that was not close to the disturbance by the Forestry service. After walking around we went to the lab to find out what was going on, we were also thinking that we were not going to be able to work there at all. After a few hours we found out that Forestry was done working in that area and said it was all ours. Apparently they had a special permit to go into the area to cut trees down. Lucky for us they were done.
Later that day when the sun started to go down a bit we went back out to try and pick out exactly where we want our plot. We decided on a fairly dense patch of wood that was barely disrupted by Forestry. Tomorrow we will get the coordinates and hopefully get started.