Assignments

• Factsheets
• Journal

Class Goals

Field Trips

• Trip 1
• Trip 2
• Trip 3

Schedule

Student Issues

• Grades
• Responsibilities

Teaching Team

• Instructor
• TA

Background material on:

• Biogeography
• Biology 162
• Climate & Climate Change
• Fire Ecology
• Forest & Tree Growth
• Forest structure
• Gradients
• Phenology
• Serpentine
• Species Factsheets

References

Archival Material

Field Trips Historical

• Rattlesnake Ridge (2007)
• Lake Tradition
• Asahel Curtis
• North Fork

Field Trip 1 (Lake Tradition/Tiger Mountain/ Issaquah Alps and Three Forks Park) April 24, 2010

Contents

• Field Trip Goals
• Exercise
• Factsheets
• Background
  • Aerial Photograph and Topographic Sheet
  • Issaquah Alps
  • Shaping forces
    • Vashon Icesheet
    • November 1955 Freeze
    • December 4, 2003 wind storm

Field Trip Goals

• How topography affects soils, water and vegetation? Or: Can we use vegetation to tell us about soils, topography and water?
• Interaction between soils and vegetation
• Role of disturbance (fire, disease and wind) in forest processes
• Learn the major overstory and understory species
• Learn about tree growth and development

Exercise: When we are at Lake Tradition (or Asahel Curtis, or the North Fork of the Teanaway), we will divide into groups and do some data collection exercises. These exercises will form the basis of several discussions. One exercise focuses on the different species, disturbances and soils that we will encounter. You will be responsible for two of these for each field trip. Here are the steps one should take in preparing for these exercises:

• Step 1: Julie will send you an email well before each field trip with an attached table that gives you your assignment
• Step 2: Identify the factsheets you are responsible for developing and presenting in the field
• Step 3: Identify the species/disturbances/soils you are required to prepare (and know) a factsheet form (download the template for the factsheet). There are instructions on the template or in great detail on this web page (Assignment: Factsheets)
  • References or sources can be Pojar and Mackinnon or Mathews or a wide range of different web sources (see below)
  • Bring factsheets with you (cover in plastic in case of rain)
  • Make sure factsheets are turned in at the end of the field trip for grading.
    • If you are worried about nature of factsheet and whether you are doing it correctly, send to me (hinckley@u.washington.edu) or Julie and we will give you feedback.

Factsheets

• • Template Download (TemplateESRM401.ppt)
  • Sample factsheet (Mountainpinebeetlefactsheet10.pdf)
  • Sample factsheet (Alnusrubrafactsheet10.pdf)
  • Grading rubric (2010FactsheetGradingCriteria.doc)

  Factsheet Assignments for Field Trip 1 (April24, 2010)

  • Factsheet assignments
    • Saturday (ESRM_401_FT1_Fact_Sheet_Assignments_2010.xls)
  • Factsheet grading rubric (2010FactsheetGradingCriteria.doc)

Background Material

Lake Tradition is part of the Issaquah Alps: "These mountains, so christened by Harvey Manning in 1976 are those low mountains which face I-90 between Bellevue and North Bend: Cougar, Squak, Tiger, Taylor and Rattlesnake Mountains. Also within the Issaquah Alps are Grand Ridge and Mitchell Hill, as well as the corridors leading to these mountains."(http://issaquahalps.org/) Educational and recreational information can be found here.

Key Events Impacting this area:

• Vashon Icesheet

• Freeze of November 1955

• Wind storm of December 4, 2003.