Sunday, May 24, 2015

Mashomack Preserve

Today I went to the Mashomack Preserve with my family. It is a preserve with hiking trails. Some of the preserve was about preserving water. I took lots of photos and 2 videos for the blog.
First we entered and saw the welcome sign.

Then we went went on a bridge over a Kettle Pond.Kettle ponds are made when some ice fell off a glacier a long time ago and made a hole that later became a pond. Lots of animals live in the Kettle Pond so it is important to keep around.

Not only is there animals living in the pond but there are lots of trees and bushes.
We got to get to know some of the animals and plants. Me with an inch worm.
Leaf with some sort of egg on them, maybe butterfly?
On the trail they told a story called "Yucky Worms" by Vivian French. This is one line of the poem about how worms help with water.
Hiking trails
Plants to prevent runoff
A clean lake
Some algae in a lake (not good).

Some grass nearby the lake to soak up water.
A quote of Benjamin Franklin's.

Vocabulary words
We then went back to the preserve house where we could read about more info. Here it talks about this water cleanup they had.

Info about cleanup

What they cleaned up. A rubber chicken?
 The threats of nature. 4 out of 6 were threats to our waterways.
Animated pictures of fish and birds.
Next blogpost I'm going to include an interview I did with 1 of the staff since there isn't much room left on this one.

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