No other staff members will be working on the project during the expedition. The site of the experiment is 36 km. The lakes in the region are generally small picturesque lakes surrounded by thick evergreen forests of cedars, spruces and firs. A day trip to Strathcoma Provincial Park up in the mountains is possible, with excellent hiking. The project site is a small lake in the middle of conifer forest.
Access is by a rough, small dirt road.
The lake is ringed by forest, and has a border of marsh around it. A five-minute walk down the road is a picnic site with picnic tables and a crude outhouse, otherwise the bathroom facilities during the working day will involve the woods well away from the water. We will bring drinking water and food with us to the site each day. Dipnetting is not particularly difficult, but dipping a net several times a minute for much of a day is somewhat tiring. It will certainly be cool but may also be quite wet for periods of time and participants must be willing to work in the rain.