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Loma Verde School, Novato |
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| On November 29, 2005, our class took a field trip to the Straus Ranch near Tomales Bay in West Marin. | ||
After a long bus ride, we walked down this lane to the creek at the bottom of the hills. The winter browns and greens looked like lovely patchwork quilt. |
We formed a circle to learn about our jobs at the restoration site. |
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Brita from STRAW hands out the tools we need for planting. |
Paola and Alex carry a heavy iron crowbar to the work site. |
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Gabby and Margot push the crowbar deep into the spongy soil. |
Natalia and Marie wriggle the crowbar back and forth before trying to pull it back out of the ground. |
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Here comes Paulina with an armload of willow springs to plant in the holes we've poked. |
Alex separated a clump of Juncus to transplant farther from the stream channel. |
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It takes team work to separate the root mass of the Juncus. |
Yea! Summer, Alex, and Raymond show off the clump of Juncus they have ready to transplant. |
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Christian uses a spade to dig a hole for the Juncus. |
Voila! This transplanted Juncus will help keep soil from washing into the stream. |
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It's so fun to work outdoors in mud and water and very satisfying to know we've helped restore part of the watershed. | |
| Wetlands Field Trip
Birdwatching At Rush Creek Marsh. Redwinged blackbirds Nest in cattails along the creek. Lift your binoculars, Look. Out in the marsh-- Mallards and gulls, White pelicans and great blue herons, Great egrets, snowy egrets, Black-neck stilts and pied-billed grebes, Canada geese and fuzzy little goslings. Turn south toward the oak-covered hills, A different habitat. Sparrows and warblers, Towhees, phoebes black, and Kingfishers belted. Bird watching At Rush Creek Marsh. Amazing field trip! Group poem, Feb 2006
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