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August 23, 2006

10,000 Rain Gardens

The Kansas City area has a goal of having 10,000 rain gardens.
They have a neat website with lots of resources on better stormwater management practices:
http://www.rainkc.com/home/index.asp

Posted by Malinda Slagle at 01:05 PM | Comments (0)

August 08, 2006

More Bush Honeysuckle Demolition!!

Intern John Lee and I removed this large pile of bush honeysuckle from the edge of the woods in one single afternoon! The area was much sunnier once we were done.

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Bush Honeysuckle Demolition!

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ERC's Last Day

On the last day of ERC the students and I each shared one thing we were curious about, one thing we learned about, one thing we were excited by, and a favorite thing we did in ERC.
-Jessie
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Brittney
Favorite thing- Shaw Nature Reserve
Curious- About Friday
Learned- So much
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Eboni
Favorite thing- drawing for creek mapping
Learned- what a watershed is
Curious- what I would learn
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Whittney
Learned- creeks
Excited- the pizza at the open house
Favorite thing- Shaw Nature Reserve
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Johann
Learned- creeks, creek mapping, prairies as systems, watersheds & how they connect everthing
Favorite thing- being outdoors all summer
Curious- how much we would learn thoughout the program
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Jessie
Excited- Being able to return to Shaw
Learned- that the students trust me to not lose them in the woods
Curious- Will the stundents stay in contact?

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ERC's last week

Thursday August 3, 2006

Today ERC creek mapped for the last time. It was a blast. We had fun on our last day of working at LREC.
-Johann
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Wednesday August 2, 2006

Today we went down to the creek to creek map. After that we went down to the cabin to work on the Enviroscape model.
-Whittney
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Tuesday August 1, 2006

Today we learned skills to prepare for creek mapping. We learned how to measure height and length of the creek bank and how to use a compass to find a bearing.
-Eboni
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Moday July 31, 2006

The ERC pulled winter creeper and garlic mustard from the north woods. In the afternoon we enjoyed two movies about watersheds!
-Colleen

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