November was a really hectic month and we got a taste of what a week of 105 degree heat feels like. We worked for a couple weeks in the central part of the park, near Satara restcamp, raising 24 rain-out shelters within a big fenced area. The fence is to keep out the animals, but even though the outer fence is 10 feet high, giraffes and zebra can still leap over it to get inside….park staff have to shoo them out every so often. The rain-out shelters are designed to collect half the rainfall that falls on the plot and store it in a barrel. When the barrel reaches a certain level, it discharges all the water onto the plot through irrigation tubing. The goal is to see what effect less frequent, but more intense,
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