Spring

There are lots of neat flowers coming up all around camp and the various areas we visit. I have found at least 15 or 20 different varieties. Most are small tundra flowers, but they are still pretty neat. The last image here appears to be a lily. It is nearly black in color and smells like rotten food or dirty socks. Must be pollinated by flies . I wonder why we have so many growing near the FRI camp?

Ryan running the river on a fine afternoon.

This awesome fish counting station is just below our camp on the Chignik river. The two large drums capture fish and hold them in large bins in the back. The little domed area is an all weather lab space for counting the fish. They dunk a bunch of the juvenile fish they catch each day in "bismark brown", which stains them. The they release them upstream and see how many marked ones are in the next day to get an idea of the population. This device runs from just after ice out (mid may) until the numbers drop in early July.