It is early June in the North Woods. I sit at the fore of a canoe that carries three. My classmates and I are paddling out to a small island in the middle of Plum Lake to record the plants we find growing there. We are college students attending Scientist Summer Camp — at least that’s what I call it. Officially, it is a Practicum in Field Environmental Biology. But long days of bird-surveying and insect-collecting invariably turn into longer nights of bonfire revelry, so I think “Scientist Summer Camp” is more to the point.
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Originally published by at underc.nd.edu on February 21, 2025.
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