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Mr. SWICK
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Student Poetry
A new and exciting experience for me, Opposite, Alternate, Whorled and Lobed; The leaves I've grown to know and love. Pine, Spruce, Oaks and Elm; The trees I can now identify. Biodiversity A difference in life. Forest protection Don't you dare litter, Or even pick the prettiest flower, Dutch Elm and Gypsy Moth. Major diseases in our forests. Canopy cover, fall conditions, shrub layer and more. The steps in ForestWatch I adore. I will never forget, The valuable things I have learned In River Research With the amazing Mr. Swick! -- Karin Jorgensen ForestWatch Fun One day we were just learning And needed something new So we headed to the forest To see what we could do Upon arrival to this place We had a brilliant plan To check for health and hurting Throughout this forest land
This thing we called a ForestWatch But what could we do first We'd go through rules and etiquette And procedures: the best and the worst To set our own transect line A stake went in the ground The compass made the line look straight For the accurate data we found Marking off every ten meters A square of ten and then ten The tree survey began with ease We just didn't know how we'd begin The DBH helped teach us 'Bout how to measure trees And using the book all about them We saw what type each tree could be After tree survey was finished Shrub layer was done near the ground With our arms spread out to two meters We hit all the shrubs all around Recording each shrub that we hit Measuring the width that we'd seen Meant our watch was almost complete We'd worked as a ForestWatch team
We grabbed the tube with two crossed lines The sight of a leaf meant a plus mark And without one it's a negative sign Observing the trees and their leaves We found the conditions they had Were the trunks now spliced or all rotten Were the leaves chewed or burnt really bad After all of the data was written We wrapped our 50 meter line Our data proved healthy with minimal hurt For our forest, that was a great sign So remember next time you are bored And your class has nothing to do ForestWatch can help but it also is fun You'd be amazed at the things you would do. -- Amanda Streeter (10/29/98) |
