especially with the forest treatments.

I was kind of blown away with the response.

And one of the stands, I bet they were 90%.

That would be the number I'd throw out.

90% understory coverage of Forbes.

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Is that your attempt at a yelp or?

No, not at all.

That's my 10-man rusty sound.

That's the squeaky wheel.

It's been a little while since we've recorded, y'all. So we got to shake the rust off.

We've got a lot going on man yeah we do you know the other thing that i was thinking i meant to say this right before we started

but we're talking about what we're going to talk about today and uh one of the thoughts that occurred to

me is yesterday i was meeting with one of my graduate students and we were talking about his graduate research proposal.

This is something that all master's and PhD students have to do early on in the initiation of their graduate research.

Basically, it's like a planning document, right, in a literature review so that they're very informed on the topic.

And they kind of lay out where their project fits within that greater literature.

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