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.

Question to answer for Wednesday: watersheds

Today I asked you to start out by writing down your answer to the question "What is a watershed?", before we discussed it in class. Later, you updated your definition after seeing a presentation about watersheds. Then we delineated watersheds on paper maps, and finally headed out into the field to find our watershed on the ground.

Based on these different experiences and interactions with the concept of a watershed, in your own words, describe your understanding of a watershed - how will you explain it to others when you present your results from this class?

If your definition of a watershed changed throughout the day, include a short discussion of how the new information you gathered helped to change your idea of a watershed.

A concise, descriptive paragraph or two will suffice.

Question to answer for Wednesday: watersheds

Today I asked you to start out by writing down your answer to the question "What is a watershed?", before we discussed it in class. Later, you updated your definition after seeing a presentation about watersheds. Then we delineated watersheds on paper maps, and finally headed out into the field to find our watershed on the ground.

Based on these different experiences and interactions with the concept of a watershed, in your own words, describe your understanding of a watershed - how will you explain it to others when you present your results from this class?

If your definition of a watershed changed throughout the day, include a short discussion of how the new information you gathered helped to change your idea of a watershed.

A concise, descriptive paragraph or two will suffice.