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Find Your Forest Friends Visit your local forest or park and look around for animal tracks. Muddy or damp grounds are especially good. Think about where animals get their food, water and where they live. 1 Activity See if you can recognize the tracks on this list and check the boxes as you find them.

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Save the Mushrooms! Watch where you step! We Smurfs live in mushrooms and they are very fragile. Thinking about where you step is important for anyone walking in the woods. Surfaces act differently depending 2 Activity how durable they are. Rock, sand and gravel are all very durable and can be stepped on without making an impact. However plants, fungi and other vegetation can easily be destroyed.

Find the words below in our crossword. Bonus F H R L E A F M Y F if you protect these when you’re in a forest! Did You Know? J L I E T C O C R U Not all frogs spend Y O O R T O P B R N their lives in the water. • FLOWER • SMURFS Some species, like the wood S O E W R A Y R E G • FUNGI • SOIL frog, spend their adult life on the forest floor. Frogs O E W H E O W O B I • LEAF • TREES are good predictors of the • MOSS • TWIGS weather—they croak when S D S T K R U J F S atmospheric pressure • MUSHROOM • WATER changes, which often I U S G I W T W R S • SMURFBERRY indicates a change in the weather. M U N B Q C A O U O I S M U R F S I M M K H S Z N V R S S V

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