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Location:
Plumas, Butte, Sutter, Sacramento, San Francisco & Marin
Counties
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Sponsors:
Plumas Unified School District |
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Project
Type:
Education |
Est.
Cost:
$38,000 Amount Funded: $34, 000 Minority Funds ($11,000
approved 8/31/04;
And $23,000 approved 12/14/04) |
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Est.
Start Date:
Fall 2004
Est. End Date: Spring 2005 |
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Project
Description:
A yearlong classroom and field trip based watershed course of study
for 6th grade students in Plumas County culminating with
a “Plumas to Pacific” field trip in the spring. Charter and Public
school students from Lake Almanor basin, Indian Valley, American
Valley and Sierra Valley begin by studying the watershed of their
own school and community. Field trips and activities continue
through the year following the water on to the Feather River, to the
Sacramento River Valley and Delta, then on to the Pacific Ocean.
Students will have the opportunity to participate in stream and snow
pack monitoring; learn the basics of benthic macro-invertebrate
identification, riparian area animal identification, topographic
mapping and hydroelectric power history. Additional activities
include canoeing, rafting, powerhouse visits, dam visits and fish
hatchery tours.
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Project
Goals/Objectives:
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Studies will include direct correlation to the California
Content Standards for Science, Social Science, Mathematics, and
Reading, Grade 6.
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Examine not only the watershed, but also the necessary
influences of mining, logging, ranching/farming,
hydroelectric power, commercial, recreation and municipal,
encompassing the vast multiple use issues which tie into water
usage in Northern California.
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Provide students in Plumas County with a definitive watershed
education and stewardship experience. Stewardship habits
develop early in life, k-12 students represent the future;
without a messenger to carry and convey its importance,
stewardship, the greatest of messages, and its many facets is
“dead in the water.”
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Project
Activities:
Excerpt from Article by Rob Wade
Our First Watercourse Field Trip
by Amelia Beck
Expenditures: $30,958 |
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