Week in Missoula

The meeting went pretty well. If you ask me, there are still some things left undecided and confusing, but we need to press on. Hopefully, I can divorce myself from this project in terms of operations and just provide some assistance occasionally when needed. The biggest problem with this project seems to be that one half of the room was trying to use us for Washington-level reporting needs, while the other half was trying to use us for project-level decisions. Not a good place to be in. No man can serve two masters!

The rest of the week has been very nice. I spent all day yesterday in the mountains visiting an FIA (Forest Inventory and Analysis) plot to discuss a new accelerated re-evaluation project and also to walk through the CBI (Composite Burn Index) with these folks. I was the only one there who had done it before (we did it in the Boundary Waters a lot). Nice day, but very long.

Today I spent some time in the mountains again, but mostly for recreation. We drove east from Missoula to a ghost town called Garnet. That was a pretty cool spot! It's an old mining town that once had 1,000 people and now has about 22 structures remaining and evidence of their mining history. Cool place to visit.

I am excited to head back tomorrow. I've got all morning free and I'm not sure what I'm going to do! Perhaps golf?