Garden Creek Project

I'm enrolled in a class called Enviromental Field Science. It is taught by Mrs. Jacobs and is really fun. Because Mrs. Jacobs is too overworked (she'd most likley rather want to watch the tube)she decided to fill the schedual feild trips for the whole semester. It is kinda of nice however, recording the data formally is boring. For The first feild trip series we are going to collect bug samples from each part of the stream. We identify them and then put them back into the creek as to not disrupt the enviroment. To all of you who are unaware of where garden creek there is a simple map to the left which you can click on to view the area. If you understand location better by wrriten word then here is my very vauge discription of the creek. It starts on Casper Mountain and  flows into Rotary Park (also known as the Falls.) It then runs down the mountain to the Audobon Center where it converges with another small creek. It then runs through Sunrise and dumps into the N.Platte River. Anyways we've been to two sites so far the Audobon Park and the falls. There are 12 different macroinvertabretes (insects) that we look for to caculate the pollution Stonefly being the most sesitive and Worms being the most tolerent to pollution. Again if you could think of more concerns or subjects that you think are important to the enviroment and such please share them they will take a key role in my next post.

PS: sorry this is'nt on sunday like i've promised i came down with a cold and did not feel so good

-Kyle