This site was notable for me for two reasons:
1. The soil was the darkest I’ve seen sampling, almost like compost. I’m hypothesizing high soil organic matter when I analyze it in the lab. Sorry this picture is so out of focus!
2. Harvey Creek is in an Illinois town called Sandwich. This is, in fact, amazing.
It was surrounded by cornfields (which I had expected to see a lot more of than I did this summer.)
Actually this site was one of our least favorites, since there were a lot of tall plants with bindweed tangled up in them, which meant we spent a lot of time tripping and getting scratched. For reference, the flag is 5 or 6 feet tall.
