Valley Garden Park is located on the Wissahickon formation of the Delaware Piedmont- an area of sediment deposition from the Appalachian mountains. The earliest record of land use history I could find was the account of the property being owned by the most prominent family in Delaware- the DuPonts. According to a plaque in the […]
Archive for March, 2019
Beeches, Beeches, Beeches
Posted in Uncategorized on March 14, 2019 | Leave a Comment »
Phenological Phases
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2019 | Leave a Comment »
The first visit to my site in March revealed that the few phenological changes that occurred resulted primarily from the increase in precipitation as of late. The soil, or what can be seen of it under the snow cover, appears entirely saturated from the months of snow cover and the recent quantity of precipitation that […]
Ecological Community
Posted in Uncategorized on March 7, 2019 | Leave a Comment »
Based on the “ecological potential” present at my site, I would classify the ecological community as a Northern Hardwood forest. Upon identifying the community that mirrored the composition of my site, I further researched the Northern Hardwood forest and discovered that many of the flora and fauna observations I had previously made were noted as […]