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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Calaveras Big Trees

Posted by Karen Retford at 7:48 PM

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Save the Redwoods League

Henry Cowell State Park

Redwoods by Karen Retford

Redwood Intro Podcast

Big Basin Fallen Giant

Group Picture

Live from the field Big Basin

Banana Slug

Getting up close and personal - no banana slugs were harmed or touched in the process

Kissing a Banana Slug

I kissed a Banana Slug,
four or more times.
I said, "Four, shmore!"
So I kissed it once more.
It felt so ewwy and goey.
It smelt fine, just like anytime.
It tasted ooey and fooey.

by Morgan Heinzle

Planting Redwoods

A Redwood Tree by Sydnee Adams

A tall redwood tree,
So tall you can not see the top,
The tree is so tall,
They need a lot of water,
They need a lot of care to.

Big Basin by Karen Correa

Redwoods trees are very important
They are part of nature
Redwood trees grow so tall
They need lots and lots of water to let them grow.
Not just any redwood tree any tree needs care.

Redwood Tress by Sean Profeta

Trees are red as fire
But their green leaf and pines
Their trunks are too high to burn
They are older than
Everything

Water by Jose Macedo

Water is shiny, clear, and blue
while bears enjoy their fishy meal and
deer refresh
themselves in the
fresh water

Endangered Salmon by Marcos Gonzalez

Endangered Salmon
There is hardly any
There are many others
Salmon get endangered quickly
We could get endangered.

Nature by Karen Correa

Nature is silent
Nature has the two sides are friends and foe
Nature is really pretty
Animals live in the nature
Nature is trees forest and more things
Nature is important.

Trees by Mark Patterson

Trees are so narrow
Trees are green tall brown and wide
They grow more and more
Soon it will be just a trunk
It will be used to sit on

Mark in Tree

Falling in love with trees

Redwoods by Yesenia Cabuena

REDWOODS
REDWOODS ARE TREES
THAT COME FROM A REDWOOD SEED
DECOMPOSERS ARE FINE
BUT THEY ARE NOT MINE (SO WHAT)
SEEDS ARE TREES THAT COME FROM A SEED

Redwoods by Karen Correa

A tall redwood tree so tall
You can’t see the top
The tree is so tall
They need a lot of water
They also need a lot of care too

Worms by Yesenia Cabuena

WORMS:
THERE ONCE WAS A WORM
WHO LIKED TO SQUIRM
HE ATE DIRT
IT WAS DESSERT
AND THAT WAS THE LIFE OFA WORM

Watercolor Redwoods

Banana Slug by Sydnee

A Redwood Grows by Morgan

Banana Slug

Kissing a banana slug concrete poem

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About Me

Karen Retford: I am an elementary school teacher, scuba diver and Earthwatch volunteer. This is a picture of me with a baby gray whale in San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja.

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Learning Through Redwoods

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Read this document on Scribd: Learning Through Redwoods

Banana Slug by Alyssa

Bizarre
Animal
Nothing
And
Never
Amazing

Silly
Looking
Ugly
Gushy

Redwood by Adilene

Red
Ecosystem
Dig
Wood
Old growth
Overwhelming
Discovery tree

By: Adilene .J.

The Great Decomposer -- the Banana Slug

Along the coast, amongst the forest giants lives a large gastropoda, known as the Banana Slug. These large slugs can get as large as 12 inches. They are not always yellow, they can vary in coloration from yellow to slate green to white. These animals have a pnuemostone, which is a small opening which leads to a small lung. They can also breathe through their skin, so long as it remains moist. Their slime also serves as protection. It has an offensive taste to some predators. Banana slug slime also helps this animal move. The path it leaves behind helps other banana slugs make connections, which is very useful during mating season. Some their favorite foods are decomposing vegetation and fungus. They make a great dinner for garter snakes, ducks, geese, shrews, moles, crows and even salanaders. Racoons like to eat their slugs rolled in dirt to cut the slime.

Banana Slug by Karen Retford

Henry Cowell State Park

Life in the Redwoods by Marissa

Redwood o’ Redwood how tall and old
How is it that you can stand the cold

Banana Slug o’ Banana Slug o’ no where to be seen
How is it that your senses are so keen