Rock Creek Park

Assist with Creek Restoration Goals My involvement and support in implementing and maintaining creek restoration projects has been an extremely rewarding focus and exposure during my internship. The City’s most active creek restoration site is Lower Colgan Creek Phase 1, which Sean McNeil had taught me to care for by leading public events, monitoring vegetation succession, and preforming on-site watering and maintenance. During the summer of 2017, I served as the lead for operating our water trailer

Samantha Shields 952673863 ENGL 030 001 Dr. Aaron Mauro 3 December 2014 Solving White-Tailed Deer Overabundance With Hunting and Sterilization In the past few decades, white-tailed deer populations in North America have increased drastically. Due to some relief in predation—in correlation with changes in the environment—deer populations in many zones meet or exceed 10 deer per square kilometer, which is a much higher ratio than in the 1960’s and 1970’s (Côté 116). With an overabundance of deer,

Merri Creek before it runs into the Yarra River. As a direct result of this there is an extensive valley from the constant presence of fluvial processes over geological time. The landform patterns at our sites were extensively governed by the movement and availability of water, with escarpments, gullies, cliffs and spurs of varying steepness all observed. Figure 1. Topographic map of the meandering form of Merri Creek (topographic-map.com, 2018) Sites: 1. Little bridge over the Merri Creek • UTM

While hikers and dog walkers may have territorial and philosophical conflicts in some locations, Pulgas Ridge Open Space Preserve seems to comfortably accommodate both groups in a small park with ridge-top views, cool canyons, and streamside thickets, mixed oak woodland, chaparral, and abundant wildflowers. Dog walkers are provided with a large off-leash area where their canine companions can romp unimpeded; hikers have access to interesting trails that see few dogs or other hikers. Pulgas Ridge

along down the creek there was me and my two friends. Their names are Gage and Tyler. We were just a couple of sophomores wandering around aimlessly on the very familiar, local road that was by the name of Bundschu until we came across some woods that we were always so curious about. Well, that is when we decided to enter into the woods and walk down the muddy and rocky creek in seeking for a great adventure. I was much more eager than my two buddies to get to the end of the creek which is why I

Here is the thing, as great as Victoria Bryant National Park sounds; in reality it is not as great as it sounds. To start off with, there is a five dollar charge just to park your car in the park and there is a pet fee to have a pet on the property. The small muddy creek that feels like its 78 degrees, flows through the park and happens to be poorly maintained, as well as any of the trials. Rotten tree trunks, big rough rocks, and tree roots that stick out like a sore thumb, take over the trails

nine million people a year, twice as many than other parks. That nine million people go see the mountain-skimming scenic. During their summer that draws 60,000 people. How many mountain roads in there in The Great Smokey Mountains? There are 384 miles of mountain roads. There a quarter-miles of paths. There are eight hundred miles of trails, from a half-mile to a 70 miles long. Some the people hike the trails, some drive their cars. The parks as cover 800 miles of mountain territory. Some people

included within the Devonian and Silurian periods (354-441 million years prior). These rocks are overlain in wide zones which also include much more youthful rocks, and were generally part of the Tertiary and Quaternary ages (2-65 mya). Rocks of Early Silurian (441 mya) were discovered to be the most established within the bedrock. Particular in the outcrops located in the north-east around Warrandyte (Anderson Creek Formation), and on the west side of Melbourne more specifically the Maribyrnong Valley

“Brook! You will never guess what I saw at the state park in Arkansas with my family.” “I want to hear all about it, walk me through it step by step and don’t leave any detail out.” “OK, I will start with the drive to the park.” The road is secluded, trees encompass you as you drive. The GPS directs that it is only a few more miles, but in your mind, you know you need to turn around. Then the trees open up to a little wooden cabin just off the road. After 6 hours in the vehicle, you bust open the

“Greening America’s Capitals”. I chose my hometown of Jefferson City, Missouri and Little Rock, Arkansas. Both projects are geared towards improvements in surrounding areas of state capitals in the United States. Little Rock has focused on a multi-plan “facelift” for the Main Street Corridor located near their capital, and Jefferson City has focused on the restoration of Wears Creek near the capital. Little Rock has hired a team of landscape architects and utilized its own city staff to concentrate