How do the plants and animals of Douglas Creek survive together?

Bugs in Douglas creek are important because they give animals food like fish, and frogs. If you want to know if your water in Douglas creek is good than you scrape off rocks and see if you can find these bugs. Then that means that your water is very clean because these bugs are very picky about were they live. Now I will list the picky bugs Mayflys, Stoneflys, Dobsonflys, and, Caddisflys. Canopies are good for giving shade to the creek so the sun doesn’t keep beating on the water so much making the water to hot this is important to the fish because fish need to live in a certain amount of temperature so they can live. So if the fish live in water that is to cold for them then they will die and if the fish live in water that is to hot then they will die so that is why they need a certain temperature of water. Human change the creek by throwing their garbage on the ground and they also leave their camping gear junk, going to the bathroom, and leavening the toilet paper on the ground.

Practicing Catching Macroinvertebrates

 We are in the group helping each other practice catching macroinvertebrates so when we go to douglas creek again we know what we are doing and we know how to catch macroinvertebrates. 

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Site 5 Working Super Hard

This picture is of site 5 working realy hard with their group leader Kimberly Gormley.

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Macroinvertebrate graph

Dissolved oxygen and pH information

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Stream Reach Diagram

Douglas Creek Site 5 Items Found

The small round things are pistol bullets,the medium round things are 12 gauge bullets, and the big round things are shotgun bullets. We think we saw eagle, owl,and other feathers. The other medium things are deer, and rabbit poop.

Douglas Creek Site 5 Description

Douglas Creek Site 5 Description

Our stream reach name is Douglas creek our site number is number five the township is 23 range 23. We are going to tell you about site five. The first thing we are going to tell you about is the riparian zone. The width of the left bank looking down stream is 0 to 50 feet. The right side of the bank looking down stream is 0 to 50 feet. The vegetation of the conifers are sparse it covers 0%. Deciduous plants are abundant. Shrubs are moderate and grass and herbs are abundant. The over head canopy is 25%.
The second thing we will tell you about is the channel. The shape of the cross section is a u with a straight top. The longitudinal pattern is meandering and the gradient is low. There were no alterations or diversions there. Then the third thing we will tell you about is the stream bank. The vegetation covers abundantly. There is no artificial bank protection. The bank stability is that the bank collapsed in some areas.
The fourth thing we are going to tell you about is the reach habitat. Our stream had two spots of riffles and one big pool. Our woody debris was moderate and our organic debris were abundant. Last we are going to tell you about the artificial structures. We found that in the stream reach we saw some trash, and litter. Also we found some road’s too. Now you know what we did at Douglas creek in site5. You should go to Douglas creek some time it is really fun.