Trunk Island Invasion!
Forgive me, Smiths Island! I am not forsaking you! Tomorrow we begin a week-long mini-field school in partnership with the Bermuda Zoological Society to assess archaeological sites on Trunk Island in Harrington Sound. This project has been a long time in development and is now about to actually happen, thanks to the efforts of Dr. Ian Walker of BZS and the University of Rochester's Center for Community Leadership. Last summer, Ian took me to Trunk to explain their ambitious project to restore the island to its pre-human-arrival state so it can serve as a living natural history museum and research center - much like Nonsuch Island but far easier to reach. In tearing out invasive species, however, Ian and his volunteers became concerned that they might be damaging archaeological sites dating from the past four hundred years, so contacted me to explore doing an assessment - basically doing for seven-acre Trunk what we've been doing on sixty-acre Smiths Island. Ente