Vanessa's Journal

Dec. 20

My field team members are great at designing strategies.  This morning they decided to cook up some fresh meat to bait the cages just to make it all the more enticing for the upcoming shake-up they hope to create in Hero Valley.  While they were off checking/baiting cages, I stayed at Wuyipeng and starting writing up a paper describing my thoughts on animal reintroduction and its use on pandas (to go with the presentation I worked on earlier).  I discovered that I had a lot more to say than I thought.  Twenty-five hundred words later and I feel like I accomplished something…although it’s still in progress. 

And what do you know Lao Yang and Lao Fan saw yet another red panda in person today.  It was sleeping up in a tree.  They got some pictures and everything.  I am now really thinking this is a conspiracy.  My field assistants now all tease me about the fact that they only see animals when I’m not there. 

Lao Yang and Lao Fan went down the mountain for the Hero Valley excitement, which leaves me and Lao Wang (and the chickens) to hold down the fort.