Thursday, September 17, 2020

Dendrology of the Fourmile Creek Watershed

Here, I've created a slideshow of the most common trees within the watershed that I came across while visiting the area in September of 2020. I biked a 15 mile loop from Copper Creek Lake Park along the Chichaqua Valley Trail to Mally's Weh-Weh-Neh-Kee Park. Weh-Weh-Neh-Kee is a Meskwaki people term for 'a good place'. The Meskwaki people inhabited Iowa in the mid-1800s. For more information on this tribe, you can visit their website. Fourmile Creek bordered the Chichaqua Valley Trail for a good portion of the 15 mile ride.

 

The image on the left is from my starting point (Copper Creek Lake Park, bottom) to Mally's (top). The image on the right shows a zoomed in section of the trail. Here you can see where Fourmile Creek butts right up against the trail.

Anyway, without further ado, here's my presentation:

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