“Each One Teach One” Notes
July 30, 2002

1. Edges: provide deer and other animals shelter against predators

2. Edges: Mankind provides edges against wilderness in order to farm and cultivate land

3. Algae on rocks in creeks/streams: Where the algae is dark, water is most abundant and where it is light, more sun hits the rocks and not water

4. Canopy: Treetops where it provides shade for animals and some sun breaks for shrubs

5. Mychorrhizae: Two trees are connected through mychorrhizae, or “root fungus”, which wraps itself around the roots of trees, connecting them, providing the same nutrients and antibodies against diseases to both trees (almost like Siamese twins)

6. Seedlings: Squirrels spread the seeds of plants and diversify the wilderness, just like birds

7. Douglas Fir: Not a true fir because the pine cones hang instead of stick up like a true fir; also the Douglas fir is an “apartment” to bugs and other small pests

8. Snag- standing dead tree

9. B.U.N.S.:

Big trees- shelter under story trees
Under story- the vegetative layer on the ground floor of the wilderness
Nurse Log- a log that slowly decomposes and provides nutrients to other living wildlife/
Snag- standing dead tree

10. Trees: the outer, thicker layer keeps out insects but the inner, thinner layer allows the tree to sway and not snap in the wind

Methods || Transects 1 | 2 | 3 || Foot of Earth 1 | 2 | 3
Each on Teach one