Hey there! I’m writing a screenplay where the main character is a botanist and is camping out in the woods. Only problem is, I have no idea exactly what a botanist would be doing in the woods. I want to make the character realistic and would like for them to be doing something that a real botanist would do instead of me just walking around touching plants. Thanks!
Let’s start with what he was wearing. Hiking boots, thick canvas pants, technical tee with backpack and full brim hat. On one shoulder strap a simple click counter was clipped with a carabiner. If he runs into a bunch of plants that are too many to count by hand, he uses the click counter.
Over his socks he had tick gaiters, over those, hiking gaiters and over those snake gaiters.
I believe took his phone/camera as well pencil and paper. I’m not sure if he used paper or digital topo maps for navigation, but he must have had those along with the property boundary, because there were no trails or fences where he went.
He also took some plastic ribbon to tag specific plants so we could find them later.
A couple weeks later he sent us a report and map of the rare plants with their names and locations.
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