Environmental Science Merit Badge -- Field Study II, Part 1

Field Study II, Part 1 -- Cottonwood Grove

August 3, 2011 -- 2:20-2:50 pm

High summer, clear, sunny, hot -- 81`F

Light breeze.

Dry, hard soil; kaleetchy dust

7 tall cottonwood trees, oak saplings, ivy, moss, thornberry plants, clumps of tall, sharp grass, horsetails.


The stakes to mark out the plot..


Close up plot.


Some weeds growing.


Cotton wood cotton.


A Hobo spider.


A web.


Some more sticky web.


Cotton wood trees, looking up.


Same.


Horsetail grass.


Horsetail.