Last month we highlighted the brains (and a little brawn) of The Portal Project, with a description of the new regime shift research and the requisite hardware-cloth-battle of 2015.  This month we bring out the big brawn guns (and some brains) to show you how the site keeps its youthful glow year after year in the unforgiving desert.  If we could bottle this Portal magic, it would be a best-seller for sure. Here’s our best attempt:

Do you like long walks in the desert?  Do you love cute, cuddly animals?  Do you like to take long walks in the desert with rattlesnakes, scorpions, and tarantulas when it’s 115 degrees out, and do you still love cute, cuddly animals when they bite you and poop on you?  If you answered yes to the last question, you might be Portal Protectors! material. (By the way, Morgan is recruiting another PhD…