Our biodiversity students and faculty are compiling a floral survey, collecting as many different species of plants as they can find in the Yangjuan-Pianshui area. As of Summer, 2004, we had collected approximately 240 plants, mostly from the ladda alluvial plain, the jjoba uplands, and the surrounding low hills. Approximately 130 specimens have been identified to species and preserved in triplicate as herbarium specimens. One set will go to the Sichuan University herbarium, one to the University of Washington herbarium, and the third has been returned to the Yangjuan Primary School as part of the ethnobotany project, and to serve as a foundation for the a local curriculum project.