Quick tour of the RWCOE

5 things that I learned were:
1. Our wetlands has turtles
2. There is a quite a bit of saw grass in our wetlands
3. We have bird and bat houses around the wetlands
4. There is a big raven nest in the classroom
5. I learned that the wetlands used to be a gravel pit

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River Canoeing

The day started with us unloading the canoes. I was partnered with Gavin. We had a little argument about who would get stern, I gave up after 2 minuets and let Gavin be stern. We lifted the canoe and placed in the water sideways, this was becaucuse the river was flowing in the direction we placed the canoe. It was a little tough getting the canoe to move, mostly because of Gavin but when it started moving it was moving good. After everyone was on a canoe and were floating safely, Mr. Colson thought us how to do a ferry. This was pretty easy, Gavin and I got this on our first try. Then we moved on down the river, when we got to the first rapids, Mr.Colson stopped us and told us to go one at a time and to stay staring in the rapids. The rapids were pretty fun, I don’t think anyone got stuck at these rapids. We saw some sweepers and strainers through our whole trip. Kalean and Tyler were the first ones to get stuck, they got stuck in a sweeper. Then Jayden and Nathan got stuck on a ...

Oak hammock marsh Presentation

Yesterday we had a presentation on Ecology by Oak Hammock Marsh. We did something called The ecology challenge. We were put in pairs and had to go to every station and answer questions. There were 4 sections, aquatic ecology, soils and land use , wild life, and forestry. In the wetlands section we had to identify the healthy and unhealthy parts of a wetland. We found that draining wetlands and cutting down trees are unhealthy. Forestry: we learned to count the rings of a tree and find the age of the tree. Soils and land use: we had to measure the soil. Wildlife: we learned to identify animal foot prints, different bird calls, scat identification, and animal identification. Aquatic ecology: we learned to identify invertebrates and the str...

The Most Important thing about wetlands in my opinion

In my personal opinion I think that carbon mitigation. Reducing carbon reduces pollution. Pollution is one of the biggest problems facing our planet today. Wetlands help balance the amount of carbon in our air, too much carbon is bad and too little carbon is also bad. But wetlands help keep a balance so that there is just enough carbon in the atmosphere.

Project Wetlands

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