Water Education Briefs

In September the California Conservation Corps and Carol Perkins worked with Creekside 6 Academy students at Paradise Intermediate School to improve and to study the physical and ecological characteristics of Little Dry Creek, a perennial tributary to Butte Creek. The CCC donated an entire day to remove invasive, non-native blackberry bushes along a stretch of Little Dry Creek on the Paradise grange grounds. The CCC’s work provides Creekside access to a great reach of the creek where students can measure many physical characteristics of the creek.

Desi Hatton and Carol Perkins spent a day recently with Creekside students on the shore of Paradise Lake, Paradise Irrigation District’s primary water source. It was Creekside’s first field day, sponsored by the Resource Conservation District and PID, where the students learned a little about the importance of living in a watershed. Hatton, Perkins, and a number of parents engaged the students in a nature circuit where they learned to read a compass, a handheld GPS unit, measured ambient air temperatures, tracked the sun, and pondered the differences between abiotic and living species.

From the Fall/Winter 2010 issue of the Environmental News.