>On a side note. There is an amazing flush of green on most of the areas we
>have cleared. The remarkable thing is that there is relatively little
>loosestrife sprouting. Lots of native species (well as far as I can tell).

There aren't very many native species out there, so it will be interesting
to see what indeed is sprouting.

>Stuart - exhausted but happy.

Congratulations on a very difficult job very well done! It will be of
*great* interest to see what happens with bird usage of the area. Watch
for longspurs.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416