UB says good bye!

Hey everyone this is it for UBSA! We worked hard on the wetlands and are now working on the slides to share with our community. Everyone is welcome to come watch us present this Thursday. We will be the second group as all of the UB students go. We would love to see you there. It is at 6:30 this Thursday at the preforming art center in Astoria. We hope to see you there!

Hello this week we worked hard on expantion of the wetland. We are almost done with everything we need to do for now. We have layed down the sawdust and planted sedge on the sides of the hill. This is the final steps fpr the summer. Everyone is working hard in the final push!

Here are some pictures of what we have been doing! And what we see while on the job! That is all for this update.

Upward Bound 2010!

Hey to everyone who is reading!

Upward Bound Summer Academy is now working on the wetlands! We are hard at work finding sedge and snakes and some frogs too! We are finishing up week 3. Time is just flying. We have dug up and planted sedge as well as plotting some. Thanks and we will keep you updated!

Pictures

One of our many pine trees that seem to be coming along nicely.

Water parsley that we began planting earlier this month.

If you look closely at this picture you will notice the hundreds of tad pols that have hatched in our wetland.

Transplanted Hooker Willow already rooted and making changes.

April 30th

Quite a few changes in our wetland have occured since my last post. The last couple weeks weve been transplanting parsley, slough sedge aswell as tossing any debris we can find lying around. The changes seem to occur weekly. The willow has really taken off, its rooted and began growing its own steps. Its a very amazing transformation. Weve had quite a few visitors including; wood ducks, garden snakes, possums, and frogs. Today if you look in one of the various surrounding puddles you can find hundreds of tadpols. Which we hope will survive - resulting us with a large number of frogs. More updates soon!

For The Month Of April

This month weve been focusing on pine trees, parsley aswell as slough sedge. Last month we completed the willow planting. As of today we have approximatly 40 sitka spruce trees transplanted into our wetland. We just began transplanting water parsley into the shallow areas around the water. Throughout the month of April we will continue doing so, until summer rolls around.