Final Summary 2009

How do the plants and animals of Douglas Creek survive together?

I am going to tell you how Douglas Creek helps the animals and the plants. The creek helps the animals live because they can drink out of the creek. The creek also helps the plants because it gives them water. The riffles give the insect a place to hide under the rocks so they don’t get washed away and give oxygen in the river so the fish can breathe. The canopy created by the trees let the animals live in it and shades the creek. If the human are around it makes the creek look really bad. At our site we found beer cans, bullets, and toilet paper. Most of this stuff can not dissolve into the ground.

Photo: About Our Leader

This is our site group leader.When we go to Douglas creek he helps us stay on track.He carrys a clip bord that

tells him what we are supposed to be

doing.He also helps out when we are

needing help like if we don't know what to do.

Photo: Site Bag

In this bag we carry all the stuff we need for writing how much bugs we caught and for writeing down our photo point. We also carry clip bords and a compass and a GPS. The items in our bag change each week.

Reflection on Site Changes

This is site 6,it has changed a lot sense we have been hear it started out with everything all dead. It was weird then it changed in seven days. And when we went the third time the water got deeper. We also found a small beaver dam and when one of us stepped on it we thought it was going to break. Our group found a bunch of used bullets. All of site 6 found beaver sticks and a view dead tree leafs.

Photo: our site

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Photo: Macroinvertebrates

pH and Dissolved Oxygen

Site Survey Summary 2008

Our site group is 6 our stream reach is at Douglas creek. The town ship is 23 and the rang is 23 also. The stream name is Douglas creek. We are going to tell you about site 6.First we are going to tell you about the riparian zone. The left bank looking down stream is around 50-100ft right bank down stream is also 50-100ft. There were no conifer trees. There were some deciduous trees. And there was shrubs everywhere and there was little bit of tall grass. The second thing is we are going to tell you about the channel. In the cross-section started flat at the top and then went down and then back up and flat again the longitudinal pattern is meandering the gradient willow. The third one we are going to tell you about is the stream banks. The stream banks vegetation was moderate. The artificial bank protection was about 0-25% the bank intact. Next we are going to tell you about the reach habitat. The land uses adjacent to reach. The very last thing we are going to tell you about the land uses adjacent to reach. There was recreation taking place and the evidence was bullets, beer cans, and four wheeler tracks. This has impacted the stream reach. There is also evidence of livestock and crop being grown near the steam but these seen to have no impact on the stream. Now you know about all the stuff we did in Douglas
Creek site #6 [six].