"My class and I, to my surprise were sent earlier this month to my native State of Colorado," said Stegosaurus. "I am still studying for my doctorate in tree disease. It has been a while I know, but it takes a long time to attain a doctorate when your brain is the size of a walnut. I'm slow, but I'm good."

"We were tasked with leaving the trees alone and only eating the woody bushes some 5 to 9000 feet up in the Colorado mountains. I found myself a nice meal of Ptelea trifoliata. And then, a little further up, I found some Cercocarpus ledifolius which was a rather heavy meal, but quite delicious. One of the most difficult parts of the test was identifying and eating the different forms of Hawthorns in my State. I found a nice group of Crataegus chrysocarpa, of which there was enough to share with my classmates. We also found considerable amounts of Crataegus erythropoda, and Crataegus succulenta. It was at this time that I accidentally ate a whole Pseudotsuga menziesii which is not a woody shrub, and I will probably get points marked off for that... but it is near Christmas, and I could hardly resist; other than the Picea pungens Engelmann, they are my favorite tree to eat."