Blog Post 5 by: Katherine, Shannon, Elijah
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We went to Gold Park. Since Shannon and Katherine did their
ecological survey’s here, we had already scoped out this park. This time we
made a more concentrated effort to view and recognize more plants. Our
experience was generally good. It is a nice local park, but because we had
already explored here, it lost some of its appeal. Going outside and identify
organisms is a great way to learn Western Washington Ecology. I think the best thing about this trip was
working as a group and using the key to identify local plants. I’ll admit it
was difficult at first, but with the help of Shannon and Elijah we identified
many plants in the park.
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Douglas Firs are very large trees. Their bark is
not very attractive. They have many dead
broken branches with small, reddish brown cones. It was easy to identify once we found the
cones.
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Tall Oregon grape has spiky looking leaves that
are yellowish green. There leaves are very distinctive. It is a little over two meters tall.
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Western hemlocks are tall trees with flat
needles and seed cones. It had a broken branch and looked fairly young, but
still very tall.
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Maidenfern have spread out leaves fanned out. It
has black stems and very green leaves. It fans out in 5 or 7.
Questions: What animals are native to this park? Which
plants are invasive? How can citizens, like us, protect this park for future
generations?
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Hello,
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed working in groups because I think it allows us to work together and combine opinions in order to more accurately identify something. The topics you dicussed in your questions are also ones that I was curious about and I would be interested to know about.
Hi! That's cool that you got to go twice and identify different plants both trips! I like the questions, especially "how can citizens, like us, help protect the park for future generations?" The park is rich with history and so many amazing species of plants, I think this is a very important question.
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