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.
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