{"id":46,"date":"2019-11-10T22:43:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T03:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/?p=46"},"modified":"2019-11-12T12:52:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T17:52:59","slug":"sense-of-place-streams-and-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/2019\/11\/10\/sense-of-place-streams-and-waterways\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense of Place: Streams and Waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My sense of place is defined by the presence of water in any given\narea. I feel more alive and comfortable when I am surrounded by lakes, streams,\nponds, and the ocean. In this location of centennial, the water presence is on\na much smaller scale, but I still feel the same sense of connectedness with the\narea, and that\u2019s why I gravitated towards it to study. The stream itself has\ngone through many changes since my first visit. The first time consisted of very\nslow-moving water which was clogged by leaf litter and then the second visit consisted\nof over flowed and expanding stream beds. Rocks from upstream and along the expanded\nstream bed had been pulled down stream and created a pile. The water had been\nmoving so fast before that it carved little caverns in the soil underneath the\ntree roots and flattened grass. Now the water flows at a more normal speed,\nfats but not fast enough to move rocks or form ridges in the soil. It also has\na smaller and more manageable volume now. The area is still slightly muddy in\ngeneral though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lichens on the Buckberry <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Displaced Rocks and Lower Stream Volume<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

            One thing that\nwas very different from the last time that I just noticed was that there where at\nleast a couple hundred little fish that hid in the shadows of the water or in\nthe slow-moving parts. Some were very small while others were a little bit\nlarger and the length of a pen. They all blended in with the soil bed, so they\nwere difficult to see if you weren\u2019t looking for them and they swam in groups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

            In the larger\nsense I find my sense of place to remain the most intact when in New England. This\nis because I have lived in New England and vacationed in New England\npractically my whole life. On the other hand, though, there is water\npractically everywhere. Whether it is in a state that is land locked or on an\nisland, every state and country have some source of water whether it\u2019s a lake,\na stream, a marsh, or an ocean. I can find my sense of place anywhere from the stream\nin centennial woods, to Lake Champlain in Vermont, to my hometown in Pepperell\nMassachusetts, to the marshes of New Orleans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cool New Identified Fungi: Unhealthy Tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

            At another point\nin time the stream that exists here could have been much more bountiful and\nfull of life. I envision it being very heavy flowing with many different kinds\nor fish. I also picture less trees in the area and the stream being a water\nsource for the sheep that once roamed the region. There are stone walls deeper\nin the woods that signal there was once sheep herding in this area. Once the\nsheep business lost popularity the woods became woods again. The trees flourished\nand now the area is protected from deforestation and development, but the\nlittle stream is depleted. I find myself at home here and everywhere that I can\nfind my sense of place which is a water source. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Field Notes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My sense of place is defined by the presence of water in any given area. I feel more alive and comfortable when I am surrounded by lakes, streams, ponds, and the ocean. In this location of centennial, the water presence is on a much smaller scale, but I still feel the same sense of connectedness … Continue reading Sense of Place: Streams and Waterways<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kmenice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}