First week in borger,tx working at lake Meredith National Recreation Area

I'm kindof sick of explaining to people what I'm doing out here. I sort of have the explanation down to a few sentences now. I'm working for the Department of the Interior--> National Parks Service. My main stay is here in Borger working at the Lake Meredith Fire Cache. The main people at the fire cache are the NPS Southern Plains Fire Group. They are called if there is a danger of wildfires spreading across the national park (but they cannot interfere with structural fires -- which are handled by local firefighters. They also implement prescribed burns. The fire group people are really intense dudes, and i suppose the major drought that the area has been experiencing has only made their jobs more stressful.

SOOOOOO my group is the research component to the fire cache here. they are preforming a long term ecological research (LTER) study which is monitoring a random sample of burn sites to assess the species diversity, and frequency of the plants that are appearing as the land experiences varying degrees of succession. so my group is going to be in lake meredith identifying grasses and shrubs and playing with GPS receivers for the next week or so until we travel to the next site which should be somewhere in Oklahoma. 

such good looking interns... hahhaa

Saw an antelopeee!

almost half the price of cigarettes in comparison to nyc. 

i like to take classy photos of the kids i'm working with

russian thistle which turns into tumble weed

huge beatle landed on my arm

alibates flint

our NPS tourgide for the alibates flint quarry 

so many oil refineries 

walking through a dried-up lake

I didnt get any pictures but i've already seen a rattlesnake here... i got a pair of boots to protect from the snakes, tics, chiggers, and cacti for $2.17 at salvo!