It has been quite the long winter this year and piles of snow still scatter the understory in many places around Bayfield and Ashland County. With the spring warm-up continuing this week and a bit of rain mixed in, the woods should start greening up within the next two weeks. People in southern WI are already posting observations of spring ephemerals, but if you look at the map of observations for WI you will see a void in northern WI for 2018. How soon can we start to fill in the map with observations of the first spring bloomers? Let's aim to start logging observations this week!

I look forward to a great May semester!
-Sarah