Dr. Volker Bahn
Quantitative Ecology 40 years the wetland was past the damn Honeysuckle invasive species within the woods. Not a lot of natural predators in the area. No actual protection of the woods on record. Natural Edge Spring Ephemerals Heard a Cardinal Wren 100 species of bird in the woods; mostly migratory. The damn has patched much of the erosion. Gap phase replacement, currently due to the dying of the Ash tree. Clonal shoots, roots of the plant shoot back up into other plants. 15 acre easement et by Dr. Rooney to due to WSU mismanagement. Japanese grass. Invasive, but not huge problem in campus woods. Fungi break down fallen trees either breaking down cellulose or lignan.
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I am alone currently at the edge of the woods sitting on a stump. If I turn my head to the right I can still see car traffic, hear them racing past. But if I bend my ears, to the right, there's is a stillness. The rustling of the tree branches muffles everything. The quiet is only broken by the occasional cry from a bird.
Dr Rooney- Natures Conservancy
Spice bush-slightly edible Thousands of organisms exist on and in us Donations of bodies to cemetery Idea: (The graves we filled; the cemeteries we hid) Rockafield Cemetetery The creek is rushing to the lowest point in the landscape carving a canyon. Loss of fire-> Loss of oaks and loss of ligeht Red Oak-> 100 years Seeds of wild Ginger moved by ants Sugar Maple Trees record history of the land Leaning trees
White Snake Root covers the path Encountered a puff mushroom Lots of younger growth around formerly settled area WSU prairie once extended east into Pennsylvania. Global cooling caused it to retract Found pawpaw fruit. The idea of the wilderness is not a place man hasn't trampled, but a place he hasn't tamed. It is not wild because it can't be known but because man doesn't know it, not fully. And so he fears it attacks it, and tries to put things in order only to discover there's more of it than he ever imagined.
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