Deschutes Comparison 8B

My Final Reflection 

     The week trips to Tumalo Creek have immensely changed me.  I’ve learned to respect and handle scientific equipment, use time well, be brave in crises, and try new things, but most of all, to love and respect nature.  I’ve increased in my maturity as well, I’ve felt as if I’ve grown an incredible amount from the field study alone.

     I have learned how important it is to collect data about salmon and the water quality that affects them.  I have tried to understand how the river fits in with the watershed.  I’ve had a difficult time writing down my thoughts on paper in solitude and reflection time.  But I still think about the places that I experienced.  I got hot an dtired from a long walk, that I experienced.  I got cold and wet from wading in the river, sat on the wood snag, sat by the river, looed down upon Tumalo from the ridge, and saw the river and the surrounding veil of trees.  But I neglected to write a lot of it down.

---Reece 

Opening Circle

We arrived at Drake Park and went over survey protocols, practiced the fine art of surveying strangers, then split into groups and explored the park.  

Survey 1 

In our groups we asked people what they thought about riparian vegetation and our parks for help in understanding multiple perspectives for our PSA project.

Walk

We left Drake Park and walked through neighborhoods and along the Deschutes River to Riverbend Park.

Lunch

When we arrived at Riverbend Park, we ate lunch in the large grassy area.

Survey 2

After lunch we started taking more surveys all around the park and in the Parks & Rec Building.  We also used a Venn diagram to compare and contrast these 2 Deschutes parks with our study site at Tumalo.

Solitude and Reflection
We did the last Tumalo reflection of the year and thought of how all this fieldwork came together.

Closing Circle 

We had a closing circle where each of us shared a word or a phrase from our reflection that finished up fieldwork for the year.