B.U.G.S & Soil
Muir Woods Soil and Insect Study
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Fall 2003
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Spring 2004
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Fall 2003
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Spring 2004
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This year we worked with Chadbourne Hall residents from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a stewardship partner program to study and preserve John Muir Woods. We went there three times this year, twice in the fall and once in the spring and took soil samples and insect inventories with our BUDDIES, as well as did a work project in the woods.
We set up several study grids throughout the Knoll and Woods. All of them measured 1m x 1m, were marked with flaggs and represented threedifferent areas; woods/forest, high grasses, transition area (at the border of the grassy and wooded areas).
Our fifth grade students also took water samples and used a Biotic Index Guide for finding out water health (pdf. file, 2 pages) The first page helped us identify the living organisms and the second form helped us rate the health of the water, based on what lived there.