In the field, 2007

July 2, 2007

I will be leaving Tucson for the white Mountains on either the 12th or the 13th of July. I am planning on being in the Whites ready to start work on the 16th of July. I will have to go into Bishop and check in with the Forest service on that morning. Field work this summer will be concentrated on the Methuselah Walk canyon and the adjacent canyon to the west (B1 canyon). Recent carbon 14 samples have picked up yet more floaters going back to about 11,300 years ago. Plotting them out on the map using GPS coordinates reveals a concentration of early wood on the slope above Methuselah Walk ridge to the south going up the little steep drainages nearly to the ridge. I want to slop over into the adjacent canyon at the same elevation and exposure. The geology is mapped as the same but I know that there are differences.

We will be looking in other canyons and ridges. The work this year will involve more of the volunteers doing actual collecting. (They are still allowed to look for unrecorded tags, etc.) My cardiologist says that I can go and do the work but I know that I will need someone to tag along with me to take cores as the sternum is still moving around when I try to core a sample.

So, lets go and have fun and push the chronology back in time!

Tom Harlan

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