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LAKE EDUCATION – An acrostic poem
Look at fish in the lake like threadfin shad, shellcracker, blue gill, warmouth, sunfish, bass, catfish, carp
Animals like beavers chew up many of the trees so protection like drain tiles were put around the trunks.
Know Grimes Stress/Disturbance Model for Plant Distribution (handout)
Erosion of sapprolite is faster than compacted clay.
Elderberry, silky dogwood, buttonbush, willow are good for live staking. Cut off at least 3 nodes, push 2 nodes in soft soil with one node out.
Dendritic – arms that come in on a linear form; tributaries come into the reservoir. Man made lakes are dendritic.
Understand how storm water affects our water supply; run off may have pesticides, fecal matter, automotive oils, fertilizer, trash that pollutes our water
Cove gets sandy as points are grinding down; eventually smooth out and become straight but not in our life time; greener shores
A trench is dug, filter fabric laid and rip rap is put down to help stop the waves from eroding the shoreline.
The DNR stocks the lake with hybrids and stripers for recreational purposes.
Invasive species like Japanese honeysuckle can take over.
Open water distance that wind can blow is called fetch; where wind hits there is more erosion and waves cut into the toes of upland soils; eventually causes caves to form.
Native plants, switchgrass, maidencane, buttonbush, river birch, meadow beauty, bald cypress, alders, sedge willow, elderberry, silky dogwood, native hibiscus, tupelo tree were seen along the shoreline.
Posted on the Successful Teaching Blog by loonyhiker (successfulteaching at gmail dot com).
Original photo by Pat Hensley
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