Project assistant Marie Young uses a paint brush to gently add ticks to a soil core enclosure. (IMAGE)

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Project assistant Marie Young uses a paint brush to gently add ticks to a soil core enclosure.

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Project assistant Marie Young uses a paint brush to gently add ticks to a soil core enclosure. She is surrounded by burnweed, a species that never occurred on these forested plots before the spongy moth defoliation. 

 

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Photo: Morgan Lilley/Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

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