Wissahickon Park

Hello today is july27,2009 and i will be discussing my views of the trip to Wissahickon park which my group and i ventured last week. My experiences there was neutral i did not learn anything that i did not already know but i can say that i did see the effect of erosion which was fairly new. Erosion is the removal of solids (sediment, soil, rock and other particles) in the natural environment. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion)


(http://plantandsoil.unl.edu/croptechnology2005/UserFiles/Image/siteImages/GullyErosionPasture-NRCS-LG.jpg)

The examples that i saw was an area in the ground were vast bits of soil were no longer in sight. Another example of erosion was the tree's that were in the water and the ones that basically weren't connected to the ground or to there roots to be more specific. Other wise than that was the walk. The walk that we took was pretty cool because i got to see a part of Philadelphia that i haven't seen before dealing with nature. But things i hope that can change in the future is that the river is more cleaner and there's less trash around the park, the parks could use more trash cans and maybe a water fountain every 300 feet or so(could be an exaggeration in distance)