June 12, 2007: I See Prairie Dogs!

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

We drove to Devil’s Tower yesterday. 

We got our new crew member, Danny. We found out Travis flew home over the weekend and isn’t coming back for medical reasons. Too bad. We had a good group dynamic going last week.

Today started with work at 6:30. We sprayed weeds until the rain stopped us at 10:30. 

At 12:00, we went to Sundance with some of the park people we are working with. We went to a free museum. 
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We went to Vole Buffalo Jump. It’s a hole in the ground, not impressively big. The sign said there are 20 feet of bones under the topsoil. It was too rainy to take pictures. I wish I had, though, just to show how unimpressive it is. 

We got back at 4:00 and the end of the work day. Supper, then shower. The rain stopped by the time we got back. It looks promising for clear skies tomorrow.

There are prairie dogs here.

This morning, a park worker sprayed a weed within two feet of a sleeping fawn before she saw it. We all gathered around, probably 10 feet or less away and the fawn pretended to sleep.