Day 3

September 23-25,2018

Liam O.

Yellow Group B2D2

Region-regions are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics ( cultual geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography). Geographic regions and sub-regions are mostly described by their imprecisely defined, and sometimes transitory boundaries, except in cultrual geography, where jurisdiction areas such as national borders are defined in law.region

When we first got up, it was raining really hard. We started hiking a different direction than we usually did.We headed Northeast. As we walked there were a lot of Hemlock trees, some surrounding an old basement. There was a stone wall in the basement and then there was some stone posts that looked like it used to hold up a house. We never really went out of the Northern Hardwood zone. In this zone there is not much more than Douglas-firs, cypresses, firs, junipers, kauris, larches, pines, hemlocks, redwoods, spruces, and yew trees. One thing that we saw ALOT was the Hemlock trees. Mr. Woolner made sure to let us know that they were there. Here are some traits that a Hemlock carries.The undeerside of the tree needles are white, the cones are really small. While we ate snack Mr Woolner told us a story about how the Hemlock was once the king of the forest and it wanted to choose what cone he got so he cut the whole line of trees waiting to choose what cone they were gonna get. The gods did not like this so they gave him the smallest cone out there. there is a second part of the story. if you look at the top of a Hemlock tree you will see that it is drooped. After the pinecone incedent the hemlock),. will always be sad. I will put a link to that story under this paragraph. We had to get through the Welton State Forest. We mostly stayed in the We walked down a path into Welton Falls State Park. As we got deeper into the woods, the rain didn't come down as hard because the trees were protecting us. This part of forest is called the understory. We had to cross a river, the rocks got really slippery, but we made it across the river saftely. We were really close to the waterfall when the rain died down a little bit. The path got easier to see. We came through where we could see the back side of the waterfall. There was a fenced walkway that led out out into the clearing where you could see the waterfall more clearly. We went down the hill to the river. We sat down, sketched the waterfall, the river, and some cool plants. Our sketch books got really wet because of the rain. There was a giant tree stump that had been uprooted where we ate lunch . We started hiking back, sorry to leave the watefall behind us. As we hiked back we sketched an edible berry, found fresh bear tracks. We rushed inside the lodge the first second we saw it. We all had some nice hot chocolate. As we packed up we didnt want to leave. When the bus pulled in we said goodbye to the educators and went home.

Native American Hemlock Stories,. Home,. Sunday( Day1),. Monday( Day3),.

Day 3