Teton Trip - September 2004 - Day 3

Click below to view a short movie clip of Doug imatating an elk bugle.

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	This picture shows us going through the buffet line at TSS getting our breakfast for the day. During breakfast we also prepare our lunch, putting them in containers known as "hoo-haahs".
	After a super morning run, we (Maggie, Carly, Chris, and Taylor) are rewarded with this awesome sunrise. The mountains looked pink for a few minutes as the sun came up and here's the pic....` Purple Mountains Majesty!
	Pictures from our studies of the elk and their effects on aspen groves. As you can see, there are a lot of dead trees and a lot of ground cover has been eaten away.
	Here we all are in our beautiful orange vests getting ready to study the effects of elk grazing on aspen tree plots. Exciting stuff!
	Behold- the Fellowship of The Awsome Team taking a break from gathering aspen data. Ask Chris about his new flying adventures.
	Who's behind curtain number one? POLEMAN??? (check out those biceps?) This really is a method for determining the growth in forests!!! Even POLEMAN has to do an assignment now and then!!!
	Hello everyone. My name is Tiffany and I am a proud supporter of the green Nalgene bottle with the stylish yellow cap... But seriously, here I am in an aspen grove where we were recording data for our elk environmental impact study. Chris and I were measuring underbrush; Amanda was checking canopy cover at the various points. Kel and Mackie were counting shoots while Diane recorded the data in the PDA.
	This rock slide was formed in 1925 by an earthquake. It is one mile long and half a mile wide. We stopped to look after collecting data on elk damage to trees.
	Oh, look... Carly records the elk bugling in the Jackson Hole tonight. The elks were very active with their communication skills.
	Hey there kids! This is what we call a parabolic reflector, a.k.a. a "mi-cro-phone". Tee-Hee...! We heard elk bugling and recorded them. They really sound like bugles... female elk seem impressed!
	At 10:30 CT, we held a Teton chat room. Here, questions were proposed and the trip was discussed with parents, classmates and other friends back home in Illinois.