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Creek
Site 2: A creek that I enjoy walking near. People often dispose of things in it; an old gate here, a...
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Poisonous, you say?
Site 1: A prairie remnant, wherein snakes may or may not be poisonous.
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But why?
Right before getting lost after leaving the fences, we found this heavy machine used for opening...
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Uploaded on Apr 26, 2009
Erosion
In this place, rather than the wire netting, rocks and chain-link were used for the erosion control....
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Collection from Site 3
Some helpful soul threw most of our collection into the Dumpster we left it next to; we came back to...
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Tributary
It brings in water and also trash, which is visible on the lower right. Walking a short way up this...
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Trinity Fish
We spoke with a couple who were fishing to restock their son's fish tank. They congratulated us on...
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Lone Duck
The walkway leading to a tiny pier sagged so badly that I would not trust it with human weight....
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Trinity
Site 3: the Trinity River, our watershed and the river from which we drink. I have unsuccessfully...
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Not so idyllic
Up close, however, the effect was not as stunning. Things that looked fine from a distance...
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Idyllic
This was a beautiful view from the walking path along the Trinity - it was a small wooded area...
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Slider Turtle
We found a snakeskin in the stream, a tiny frog in the grass, a Texas Garter Snake under a piece of...
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Cloth
Whenever I saw cloth, which was a weirdly common occurrence, I always thought it was as though the...
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Fake Grass
When I climbed to the side of the bank I was unfamiliar with, I realized that what I had always...
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Field of Trash
It is difficult to see how much trash there really is from the bridge. We worked for a long time,...
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Abandoned Pipe
Although all of the trees sported nail-like thorns, I intended to pry this pipe from them and drag...
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Bottles
Near the millipede, we found myriad glass and plastic bottles along with an empty bottle...
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Collection from Site 1
We emerged from the woods a mile or two away from our original location somehow and were unable to...
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Cross Timbers
The Cross Timbers ecological region once extended for up to a hundred and fifty miles around the...
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Millipede
In each site we visited, I tried to find one example of the fauna and learn something new...
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Exploration
