Stewardship and Low Ropes

Today on our journey we learned about some types of plants that were not native to the Americas. The English brought the seeds of these plants in dirt which they used to help from not making the boat flip over in the ocean. The reason I told you this because that was the field we had on the morning of our day. Our group learned of all the three plants we mainly had to look for. The one of the plants was a musk thistle. It is jaggy and a pretty purple flower and another one which has a seed that sticks to your clothes like glue. We were at the original Teton science school (Kelly campus). We were put to work to kill the plants. When we were finished killing the plants we had lunch and drove back to campus. After we had time to clean hoorahs and change into better clothes. We worked with Dion and Jacob on some challenge course and then we played some goofy games and now I have to go to eat dinner.

    -Jordan Martin-

Today was a exciting day at Kelly Campus. We helped out the national park by pulling invasive plants that hurt the native plants. A few invasive species are houndstounge, musk thistle, western salsify. These plants were killing the native plants so we volunteered to pull as many invasive plants as we could. After a hard day of work we had lunch at the Kelly Campus School. Then we came back to TSS and did 5 tricky games that taught us different team building techniques. Some of those techniques being things like communication, body language, and cooperation from everybody. Then we finished up a great day at the ropes courses and had a nice dinner. Then we finished up the night with a intro to pika research with one of our TSS leaders, Jacob. Today was a wonderful and exciting day in the Teton Mountains.

     -Evan  

Bison Herd

Doe mule deer and two fawns crossed in front of us.

Instruction from the National Park on which invasive species to get rid of.

 

Invasive houndstougue.

 

 

Invasive western salsify.

 

Working at the Kelly campus of TSS.

 

 

 

 

Preparing for tomorrow's pika research. 

 

 

 

 

 

Geysers Galore

Today We went to Yellowstone national park. We went out and learned about geothermal activity. The four types of geothermal activity are geysers, hot springs, mud pots, and fumeral. We saw many things including the geyser Old Faithful and a rainbow colored hot spring, which is the world's third largest hot spring. We learned that Yellowstone has over half of the world's geysers, which include Old Faithful, and the world's biggest geyser, the steamboat geyser. Yellowstone is full of geothermal activity is because millions of years ago one of the many plates collided with the Yellowstone volcano, and that is why Yellowstone has so much geothermal activity. And so that concludes our "amazing" experience Yellowstone

-(Dr.) Sal Viscusi (with help from Garen Middleton)

Today we went from eating breakfast super early to driving a two hour ride to the geysers, hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles of Yellowstone National Park. We first went to one part of Yellowstone where they had many hot springs a few mud pots and fumaroles and almost no geysers. Then we went to the part of the park where Old Faithful and many other geysers and hot springs were. They had a visitors center where we went in for about twenty minutes and then we went and watch old faithful erupt which was really cool. Then we went to two other places where they didn't have many geysers but they had a lot of mud pots and a lot of hot springs and fumaroles. We had a lot of fun there. Then we drove to Jackson Lake on a two hour drive where we ate pizza and skipped stones and had a lot of fun. Then we came back to TSS where we are now sitting, relaxing, and playing games with each other. Tomorrow we are going to be doing a low ropes course and learning about pika research for the next day. Then on Saturday we come home and as cool as the Tetons are, home is a very nice place. Bye!

-Sincerely,

Cameron Fox Keeler

Team building warm up

Using an infrared thermometer to measure temperature of geothermal features.

Dinner at Jackson Lake

The whole gang making a phone call.

Herd of pronghorn

Apples to apples