Show fC C T f rI NATURE 4 C Drift o Ea S IIiI NOTES I ECOLOGY EDUCATION It H- H HV V BY Mary 8 R. R Alan Ian Gandy Candy k k E Keep a notebook One way to increase your awareness of 01 your natural surroundings when you are on an outing is to keep a field notebook or journal You might even find that tha t this technique will help Improve Improve improve im Im- prove your interest In and your understanding understanding understanding un un- un- un and memory of nature To keep a notebook is simple Start with a loose leaf notebook of whatever size is convenient to carry and be sure to make all your entries in ink so that they will last Some important facts you will want to consider for each entry are SUBJECT At the top of each page list the subject of that page Ducks migration Trout good fishing ng spot are examples As your journal entries grow you will be able to easily find them with proper headings Stick- Stick on tabs are handy for quick reference to the subject headings DATE AND TIME Most living things are creatures of habit As the time of day the time of the month or orthe orthe orthe the time of the year change so will the natural activities that you will be able to observe As you record them you will be better able to understand their relationship with this heading WEATHER Our weather affects the growth rate and activities of all living things By keeping accurate weather records you will soon be able to predict many things that will happen in the world of or nature By noting cloud formations temperature changes wind precipitation and barometric readings you may soon be able to predict the weather with a fair degree of accuracy LOCATION Be very careful to put putdown putdown putdown down the exact location of the subject that you are are describing List any prominent landmarks like roads streams or even an azimuth from a mountain peak With accurate location readings many things that you may wa want to te return ur to to o in the future will 11 be easily located at d DESCRIPTION t e You can put I enough facts in your journal Record how you fee about it what it looked like include a 11 sketch and maybe a map of the area If you have a camera and take a picture of 01 the subject include it also The list of 01 ideas to put into a field journal is endless and how you make your entries is up to you It will be easier to find in the future however if you follow these guidelines Then in another year when you want to make another entry on ducks or trout or whatever the subject you will be able to find it easily and with the type notebook you can conveniently add another page to keep your subjects together 4 i 4 4 Last year Americans threw away million tons of 01 materials materials enough enough to fill garbage trucks lined THREE ABREAST from New York to California Our throw away society costs us more than 4 billion each year just to remove the garbage Our sun makes up percent of the mass of the solar system Earth has about 1 percent of the remaining percent A cottontail rabbit can run between 18 and 20 miles per hour and cover up to 1 15 feet in one bounding jump I tenth One-tenth of an inch of rain amounts to about eleven tons of water on each acre of land Raindrops hit the ground with a velocity of about thirty feet per second 4 More wood products are produced from the theD Douglas s Fir than any other i ric e. e |