Field trip to Cascade Siskiyou National Monument

My General Ecology course took a field trip to collect data in permanent monitoring plots for Limnanthes floccosa ssp. bellingeriana at two sites that burned last summer on the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument. Anecdotally, it appears that the fire may have increased population density of this rare species! Students will compare population density between 2014 and 2015 in two unburned and two burned sites in the coming weeks in lab.  By continuing this ongoing monitoring project in future years, we should be able to better understand population dynamics of this species