WildLink Club Rips Out Quail Brush at San Luis National Wildlife Refuge

Seventeen wildlinkers dedicated their Sunday to helping the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge clear an abundance of quail brush from their fledgling demonstration garden. Temps soared into the high 80's (maybe even 90) by lunchtime, but luckily everyone worked so quickly we were done! Ranger Jack Sparks gave us a quick auto tour around the elk enclosure and gave the students several very informative and engaging presentations.

1	2	3 We started the day with a site overview at the new visitor's center education room. It's decked-out!	4 Ranger Jack Sparks gave us an awesome introduction to the mission of the refuge complex and how its managed.
5 Ranger Jack shows us what the quail brush looks like and how to pull it out of the ground.	6 That's right Jordan, the stuff in his right hand isn't quail brush. Leave it be.	7 This is quail brush. Jordan knew that, though.	8 This area will eventually become an uplands botanical demonstration area. Mario from NatureBridge helps Jordan and Dino.
9 Kiran and hhhh worked hard to pull that HUGE quail brush out.	10 Lindsay	11 Natasha's just happy she wasn't falling over in this photo.	12 Damian and Trevor
13 When in Rome... elk fever.	14 Katie from NatureBridge and Mrs H wondering how much I was doing.	15	16
17 Teamwork for Natasha and Jazz	18 Juan	19	20
21	22 Trevor found a relict shovel.	23 Jonathan working hard.	24
25	26	27 Suns out guns out.	28
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37	38	39	40 Ranger Jack Sparks, Mr. Hoobyar, Mrs H, Lindsay, Mr Campbell, Damian, Erika, Kiran, Dino, Mary, Samantha, Jonathan, Juan, Jordan, Jennifer, Alejandra, Miriam, Yulissa, Natahsa, Jazzmin, Trevor
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