Day 176: It's National Citizen Science Month, and I'm out there doing my part to control invasive species in a challenge issued by the PNWIPC (Pacific Northwest Invasive Plant Council). Yesterday's project turned into a foxglove pull before I'd ridden half a mile on the east end of the Foohills Trail. Digitalis is only in the rosette stage at this point, and the ground is still moist enough that the plants come up fairly easily even where the soil is compacted. I pulled what I could (the others being too numerous or stoutly defended by nettles). This extension of the Foothills Trail opened a few years ago, but this was the first opportunity I'd had to ride it to its terminus at the White River.
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