Road Less Traveled By
So, today we went on a hike to try and find the boundaries of our watershed as well as scope out potential sites we might take litter samples from. Thing is, there's a little tributary we didn't check out today. Now, this might be fine because we know it's there, and that's great. HOWEVER, the waypoint labeled "Canyon" on the points Bill took was taken in an area where we were over our little stream. This isn't a bad thing, but it means that, for the time being anyway, our stream has another tributary we didn't know about. This expands and changes our watershed a little, which is fine. The thing is that now we don't know if the tributary originally stated on the maps we have is actually there. I'm proposing that tomorrow when we take our samples we check out that last branch of stream. Bill has said that there is a path that follows that area and it's totally possible for us to check that out. I feel it's necessary to cover this ground since the land is accessible and there's no point in projecting our watershed out that far if the stream doesn't exist there to begin with. Please excuse any misspellings.
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Though it may seem that I am playing the devils advocate in this argument, I truly believe, that the due to the various elevations and topographical anomolies, that elxploring this region is uneccesary. I am not suggesting that further experimentation into any subject is not needed but due to the time frame which we are given we should focus on the essentials of the research and I believe that it is unneccesary that we check out aforementioned stream. By looking at the geography of that area it seems that any water that landed in that area would flow to the original stream anyways.
Please forgive any misspellings
By Jordan Dolan, At January 10, 2007 9:06 AM
Well I think what the problem is, is that the tributary could be putting things into our stream that weren't there before. I don't know the significance of this, or whether this is what actually is happening, but I don't think that it is negligable.
By Nick Jimenez, At January 11, 2007 7:38 PM
It doesn't look as though we're going to find a chance to explore this region without taking time out of our weekend. Oh well. At this point it looks like, for our research projects, we don't need a defined watershed. If we have time later next week, though, I think it would help more than hurt if we get a chance to check out that extra tributary.
By Natalie Jimenez, At January 11, 2007 7:49 PM
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