NY Environthon!

Nature Rules!

Envirothon Home website

Oral Problem:

• Links for research

Forestry:

Don't forget to review your packet for outline and learning objectives!!!

• Measurement using Biltmore Stick, second link
  • be able to figure out the volume of a tree given the DBH diameter and how many logs it has.
• Aging trees
• Management - power point
• Uses of Wood- power point, notes

• Tree study
• Insect & Disease
  
  • Forest Tent Caterpillar
    Gypsy Moth
    Scleroderris
    Beech Bark disease
    Asian Longhorned Beetle
    Emerald Ash Borer
    Spruce Beetle
    Sudden Oak Death
    Dutch Elm disease
    Armillaria Root Disease
• Leaf shapes
• Succession
• Tree Biology
• Structure and Function
• Benefits of Trees
• Tree Selection

Wildlife

Don't forget to review your packet for outline and learning objectives!!!

• Powerpoint- Name that animal
  • Mammal Facts
  • Missouri Animals
• Powerpoint- Aerial photos
  • Aerial photo activity
• Powerpoint- Endangered species
  • Scramble challenge
• Homework- study animal skulls

• Powerpoint- Bird Calls
  • crow, cardinal, bluejay, catbird
• Powerpoint- More animals to name
• Animal track Identification
• Skulls
  • Name that Animal Skull
• Aging a Deer
• Predator/prey relationships
  • Name that relationship
• Powerpoint- Food chains and webs
• Wildlife population ecology
• Invasive Species
• Eastern Bluebirds
• Citzen's guide to Deer Management
• Hinterland's Who's Who

Aquatics

Don't forget to review your packet for outline and learning objectives!!!

• Aging fish from a scale
• Water quality tests
• Parts of a fish
• ID aquatic plants
• ID fish
• Name water layers/zones
• Order branches in streams 1-4
• ID salamander
• ID egg

Herbaceous perennial examples:
o cattails (Typha)
o wetland irises (Iris)
o buttercups (e.g., species of Ranunculus and Caltha palustris)
o hundreds of grass species (Poaceae), including the giant reed, Phragmites australis
o skunk-cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus, as well as aquatic aroids from the tropics
o arrowleaf (Sagittaria spp.) and water-plantains (Alisma)
o some species of knotweed (Persicaria or Polygonum)
o lizard's tail (Saururus cernuum)
o bur-reed (Sparganium)
o Thalia geniculata (Family Marantaceae) and pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata, Family Pontederiaceae)
* umbellifers, e.g., cutleaf water-parsnip (Berula erecta) and species of Hydrocotyle

• Aquatic Species Monitering for water quality
  1. Very Tolerant- midge larva, snails, leech, aquatic worms
  2. Mildly Tolerant- beetle larvae, cranefly larvae, clams, crayfish, dragonfly nymph, damselfly nymph, black fly larvae
  3. Very sensitive to pollution- stonefly nymph, mayfly nymph, dobsonfly, water penny and caddisfly larva

Article on freshwater wetlands

amendments to clean water act

freshwater management

freshwater permit regulations

What is groundwater

• Native fish of NY/Invasive

Soils

Don't forget to review your packet for outline and learning objectives!!!

Powerpoint- in Ms Law's class folder

• dirt vs soil
• parent material of soil- lacustrine, glacial till, glacial outwash
• hydric soils
• what instruments are used for soil measurement
• know how to determine soil texture by feel
• know which soil type is good for
  • wetland habitat
  • basements
  • increasing the rate of erosio
• determine the percent slope using a clinometer
• what does gray soil signify?
  • clay skins, manganese, mica or iron?
• be able to identify soil structure
  • blocky, granular or platy