Mar 06, 2016
March 6: I spent the last 3 days in the Salinas/Watsonville area of California's Central Coast looking for field sites for this summer's research. Primary criteria were farms with strawberry patches adjacent to either woody or weedy vegetation.
Woody
Weedy in foreground, woody in background
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