CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 1 Welcome, Junior Explorer! R e d thaven BLM’s Junior Explorer program helps introduce young explorers like Mill Cre w es D ek o W r you to the lands and resources that the BLM manages. This activity o d H book will introduce you to plants, animals, and history of the Trinidad ig h Gateway to the Coastal National Monument . w n St ay Mai . Are you ready to have some fun!? State Park Rd 101 S e c Read and complete all of the activities in this book. Feel free to have v e

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What is a Junior Explorer? Legend • Junior Explorers explore the environment around them.

1 Trinidad Museum and 5 Trinidad Rancheria • Junior Explorers care for plants, animals and the land. Native Plant Garden Harbor and Pier

22 Trinidad Memorial 6 Trinidad Head Trailhead • Junior Explorers encourage others to care for the land Lighthouse 7 Trinidad Head Light Station and its inhabitants. 3 3 HSU Marine Lab 8 Trinidad State Park 4 Old Home Beach 9 Trinidad State Beach

CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 2 CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 3 Seabird Challenge Quiz

California is home to an amazing population of seabirds. They like to gather in large groups on the offshore rocks and islands of the California Coastal National Monument. When people get too close, it interrupts their feeding, resting and caring for their chicks. Disturbing their daily activities leaves them wide open to predators.

Be “seabird safe” and help California’s wildlife thrive! Common Murrelet

Each correct answer is worth 1 point. Add up your total to find out “How Seabird Safe Am I?” 5 points Congratulations! You are seabird safe! 4 points Awesome! You know a lot about being seabird safe. 3 points Keep at it! You are on your way to being seabird safe. 0-2 points Try again. Please continue learning more about Public Lands Belong To You! being seabird safe. Cormorant 1. When seabirds have to leave their nest because of humans it The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is a federal can cause______. government agency that takes care of more than 245 feeding grooming eggs to fail million acres of land. Most of these lands are in the 2. If birds have to fly away from their nest because they are afraid western part of the . These public lands of a boater ______. belong to all Americans. they may abandon their nest they will lay more eggs they will lose all their feathers Pelican 3. True or False: Dogs off leash that chase wildlife could hurt these wild animals chances of producing young. True False

4. True or False: It only take one close encounter with a human or dog for a seabird to abandon its nest. True False

5. True or False: Repeated human contact cause seabirds to become comfortable with being close to humans. Trinidad South View True False Oyster Catcher Credit: Jackie Gay

CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 4 CCNMCCNM TrinidadTrinidad GatewayGateway JuniorJunior ExplorerExplorer Activity Activity BookBook 55 All stacked up How do you say Cher-Ae anyway? The name comes from the coastal Yurok village at Trinidad called Chue-rey (also spelled Tsurai). In the Yurok Head down to the Trinidad Pier and What sounds can you hear from the pier? language, “ts” or “ch” makes a hard ch- sound as in chocolate. The “ae” makes an “ay” sound as in way. Harbor for a closer look at the California Traditionally the Yurok people subsisted on the abundant plants of the redwood forests including mushrooms, Coastal National Monument. ______wild herbs and teas, and large game animals such as deer and elk. In addition, marine resources such as salmon, The rocks you see from the pier are called ______rock fish, surf fish, eels and seaweed, all caught or gathered along this ancestral coastline and contributed to their Sea stacks. Sea stacks are blocks of diet. Visit the Trinidad Pier and see if you can find these marine animals in the mural. erosion-resistant rock isolated from the ______land by sea. Sea stacks begin as part of a ______headland or sea cliff. Constant pounding List the wildlife you see from the pier that use by waves erodes the softer, weaker parts Try saying the sea stacks. of a rock first, leaving harder, more these Yurok words resistant rock behind. for local marine ______plants and animals. Erosion happens when rocks and ney-puey ko’-ses paa-moh sediments are picked up and moved to ______(salmon) (crab) (kelp) another place by ice, water, wind ______or gravity. ______

hehl-kues-leg lo-tuen ko-yaakw’ ney-puey (surf fish) (ling cod) (sea star) (salmon)

Did you know? When you visit the Trinidad Pier you are visiting Trinidad Rancheria land? The Trinidad Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe with ancestral ties to If you want to find out the Yurok, Wiyot, Tolowa, Chetco, Karuk and Hupa peoples. more about the Yurok Trinidad Harbor and Pier owned and Language Project. operated by the Trinidad Rancheria.

CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 6 CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 7 Honoring those Drawing on Past Heroes Lost at Sea Use the space below to honor a life lost After modern technology replaced the original fog bell and at sea. Take a stone rubbing of one of lens at the Trinidad Head Lighthouse in 1947, the Coast the names listed on the memorial plaques. Guard donated the historic artifacts to the Trinidad Civic Stone rubbing is the practice of creating Club for display in a planned memorial park overlooking an image of surface features of a stone Trinidad Bay. In 1949 the club built a concrete Trinidad on paper. By rubbing your pencil over the Memorial Lighthouse, an accurate replica that many visitors paper that is placed on top of the name believe to be the actual Trinidad Head Lighthouse. you will begin to see a name appear! Each year on Memorial Day, friends and families gather to Try rubbing a seagull next to the name. remember those whose names are recorded on the plaques.

Lighthouse Ins and Outs

Explore the Memorial Lighthouse and see if you can answer these questions.

At what time does the lighthouse bell ring each day?

How many pounds does the bell weigh?

Why is this bell here and what does it have to do with the lighthouse?

CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 8 CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 9 January 1, 1915 Tidal Wave Rocks the had not seen before. At 4:40 p.m., I was in the tower and had just set the lens in Trinidad Lighthouse operation and turned to wipe the lantern Ending the year with a weeklong room windows when I observed a sea treacherous gale storm and huge seas of unusual height, then about 200 yards from the southwest, Fred L. Harrington, distant, approaching. I watched it as it Trinidad Head Lighthouse keeper tells came in. When it struck the bluff, the jar the story of a sneaker wave like none was very heavy, and the sea shot up to seen before. Keeper Harrington has the face of the bluff and over it, until the served as the lighthouse keeper for solid sea seemed to me to be on a level 26 years. Harrington tells his story, with where I stood in the lantern. Then “Yesterday it commenced to recede and the spray I watched went 25 feet or more higher. The sea the storm itself fell over onto the top of the bluff wash over and struck the tower on about a level (93-foot- with the balcony, making a terrible jar. high) Pilot The whole point between the tower and Rock, a half the bluff was buried in water. The lens mile south immediately stopped revolving and the of the head, tower was shivering from the impact for something I several seconds. Trinidad Head Lighthouse photo taken from the Bell House

“Whether the lens was thrown off level by the jar on the bluff, or the sea striking the tower, I could not say. Either one would have been enough. However, I had it leveled and running in half an hour. During the 26 years that I have been stationed here, there has at no time been a sea of any such size as that of the 31st experienced here: but once during that time have I know the spray to come onto the bluff in front of the tower, and but twice have I seen sea or spray go over Pilot Rock.”

Keeper Harrington on the lighthouse with his family standing on the bluff in the background

Trinidad Head Lighthouse living quarters Trinidad Head Lighthouse Water Safety Smarts What is Staying Safe in the Surf Humboldt County has some of the most beautiful and fun beaches on the North Stormwater Runoff? Coast. To enjoy our beaches safely you have got to respect and understand their raw power. Show what you know with this puzzler: Ever wonder where rain goes when it storms? 1 2 WORDS 3 In most of Humboldt County water that comes from our sinks, steep beaches dogs 4 bathtubs, and washing machines is carried through pipes to the waste sand cave sneaker waves 5 water treatment plant . rip currents 6

call 911 7 tide The dirty water at the plant is cleaned through a complex system. But water cliffs

8 that washes over streets , lawns , and parking lots when it rains

flows directly into creeks, rivers, our bays and ocean. Across 7. Don’t go into the water after a person who 1. ______that are pulled into the surf have an Storm water can pollute because it is never cleaned and picks up easier time getting out than their human rescuers. gets pulled into the surf. ______and Wait for them to swim back to shore on dry land. be prepared to guide rescuers to the person in trouble. everything in it’s path. Storm water can carry things like soil, yard waste , 3. Avoid turning your back to the ocean. It can look calm for 15 or more minutes before a few really 8. High steep ______can collapse under your big ______hit without warning. feet and cause you to slip. Humboldt County has animal waste , used oil and fertilizers. Trash that falls out of your pocket crazy geology that results in ______that are 4. Humboldt County has ______, which are just waiting to fall apart under your weight. strong outgoing currents that can pull you into or backpack, is blown out of trucks , or dropped on the ground all deep water if you get caught in one. Down 5. A rising ______can change the water level 2. Choose your beach well.______are ends up in the ocean. Remember the 3 R’s, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle . nine feet on beaches in Humboldt County in dangerous because ocean waves can reach much only six hours! farther up the beach and pull you into the surf. Flatter beaches are much better choices. Three great ways YOU can eliminate waste and 6. If you’re at the beach and feel an earthquake, quickly go to higher ground away from the coast 3. Be careful digging holes, sand is very because a ______could be headed your way. unpredictable. The walls of a ______or protect your environment! Keep our ocean clean! hole can suddenly collapse without warning.

CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 1212 CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 13 Start Stormwater Board Game ScoreBoard (requires two players) Player 1 Freeze in (Keep track of your points snow here. Example: IIII+ III-) Leave Ride bike Evaporate water Flow (skip ahead Get Point out into Pick up running into Mill Flow into three) soaked up oil leak to mountain trash so it Flow into while you Creek irrigation by plant parent cloud doesn’t go irrigation brush your ditch (move ahead (go back 2 in drain ditch teeth (Enter pool three) squares) (miss one in Mill Recycle skip turn) ah Creek) paper, cans, ea Directions d glass, and plastic • Find a friend d a • Ask your parents for 3 pennies – one person is heads, one person is tails e h a • Flip the 3rd penny. Heads is move ahead 1, Tails is move ahead 2. M Player 2 p Run into • When you land on a + add a point. When you land on a – subtract a point. i i (Keep track of your points l k l s puddle. here. Example: IIII+ III-) For each plus and minus explain why each action would harm or help C

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Take shorter showers Enter Enter Plant trees Flow into city Ocean Let Enter Ocean Soak Bring your and native water system Evaporate to Hike balloon pool in Evaporate to into own bag plants (miss a turn) beginning off trail float Mill Creek start cloud. wetland to grocery Pick up Wash car away (skip store after your with too ahead 2) dog much soap

CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 14 CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 15 KELP VS. SPRUCE Tale of Two Forests The structure of kelp can be compared somewhat to that of plants: You may have noticed the lush coastal spruce forests in Trinidad. As you explore they include a holdfast, a stipe, pneumatocysts, and fronds. the trails in Trinidad, it’s easy to see how important the forest is to its inhabitants The of kelp is similar to the roots of a spruce tree as a home: squirrels, birds, bugs, even people! But, how many of us have actually 1 holdfast because it attaches the kelp to the surrounding environment, explored an underwater forest? Instead of trees, bushes, and mosses, Trinidad like rocks. Unlike roots, the holdfast does not funnel water Bay’s underwater forests are composed of different types of algae and kelp that and nutrients to the rest of the kelp. are just as important as homes for underwater creatures. 2 Like a spruce tree trunk, the kelp stipe allows it to reach up 4 high to absorb sunlight. Kelp and spruce use the sun to make food in the process of photosynthesis, just like plants. The stipe is hollow and filled with air, so that it can float to the surface of the water to reach the sun’s rays. 3 3 In addition to having a hollow stipe, kelp often has pneumatocysts (pneu=air/cyst=ball), which are like balloons that hold the kelp up to the ocean surface allowing it f ronds to get more sunlight. Spruce trees are more solid and do not need pneumatocysts. 4 Fronds of the kelp are similar to leaves as they collect p s ne st sunlight for photosynthesis. Fronds also release spores, the umatocy 2 kelp equivalent of seeds.

What do a kelp forest and a Sitka spruce forest have in common? ______stipe ______1 How are they different? ______

holdfast CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 16 CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 1717 Stephanie Strasser You Get Paid To Do This? Hands on the Land Teacher Kelp in your Kitchen Trinidad School CCNM, Trinidad, CA Take a look at the ingredients list of things Ice cream isn’t the only place you’ll find kelp Career Profile you eat or use daily at home. Do you find any in your kitchen. Other items containing agar agars, carrageenans or alginates listed on or carrageenan include salad dressing and WHAT SHE DOES your ice cream or yogurt containers? Those jelly. You might also find it in your toothpaste are food additives made from kelp that help — never thought you’d be brushing your My favorite part about teaching is sharing my love for the ocean and the to stabilize, thicken or gel certain foods. teeth with seaweed, did you? animals that reside there. Nudibranchs are my favorite tidepool animal. I find them incredibly beautiful, fascinating, flashy, whimsical, graceful and toxic. My goal as a teacher is to have every student who graduates from our school know and appreciate the life of a nudibranch. Our school is steps away from the California Coastal National Monument Tagging a turtle in Hawaii and I use public land as my outdoor classroom as much as possible.

Cottage Cheese Margerine Education Circle the items I graduated from Humboldt State University with degrees in Marine you think have Biology and Zoology. Before finishing my degree I took time off kelp in them Condensed Milk Sour Infant to explore the world and travelled to Guam, Hawaii, Japan and Cream Formula New Zealand. On my travels I enjoyed surfing and diving wherever possible and found this amazing life under the ocean that I never knew existed. I saw all of these animals going about their daily life unbeknownst to the world above them. This underwater world inspired me to attend Hilo University, on the Big Island of Hawaii, as an exchange student. While there Salad Mayo Dressing Pudding I dove for turtles to tag and measure them for fibropapillomas (tumors) to help with research. When I came back I landed a job with the Natural History Museum in Arcata teaching kids about science. Once I realized I could inspire students to love and care for the ocean I was hooked. I went back to school and earned my teaching credential so I could share my love of nudibranchs (and all of the other ocean critters!) with my students.

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Vitamins Teaching is an art. Every connection is unique. You are responsible for another person’s education, a social worker, a replacement mom, a classroom manager, a confidant and a friend all in one. I Q: Where does seaweed look for a job? hope to connect and inspire my students to make a difference in A: In the ‘Kelp-wanted’ ads Sea Clown Nudibranch our world. sea palm CCNMCCNM Trinidad Trinidad Gateway Gateway Junior Junior Explorer Explorer Activity Activity Book Book 1818 CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 1919 Natural History Mystery NAtive Plant Garden Explore Trinidad’s rich cultural and natural history at the Trinidad Museum. Follow the native animal Hidden behind the Trinidad Museum are several animals from year to year. By observing and footprints to the front door of the newly renovated Victorian Italianate bungalow, which is now the habitats for you to explore. Walk the short trail inputting your observations into the National Trinidad Museum. and take a glimpse inside a woodland, coastal Phenology Network database you are helping meadow and a wetland. scientists discover changes in plants and animals The museum has five exhibit rooms which emphasize the original Tsurai Village, Yurok traditions, and their timing and relationship with weather European contact, the Gold Rush, whaling, fishing, shipping, logging, and the Trinidad Head lighthouse. Did you know that the Native Plant Garden behind and climate. All this within a building that is an exhibit in itself! the Trinidad Museum is a National Phenology Network site? Phenology is a big word for keeping When studying plants and animals biologists track of the seasonal changes in plants and record what they see. Document what you see Name The Whale Bones and answer the questions below. Hint: answers can be found in the Trinidad Museums Natural History room

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To Trinidad Museum 1. ______4. ______Date: Time: 2. ______5. ______Weather: As you walk around the garden, how many different 3. ______6. ______birds do you hear? Can you find the name of a plant that has a purple flower? (hint: look for the name tags next to the plants) What animal made this hole? Hint: look for rocks in the natural History room. How many different types of ferns can you find?

Mark an X on the map where you find the ______California Hazel.

CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 20 CCNMCCNM Trinidad Trinidad Gateway Gateway Junior Junior Explorer Explorer Activity Activity Book Book 2121 Climate Champion Visit tsurai Find these plants in the garden and look for the tag… On your visit to the Trinidad Museum, check out the diorama of the Tsurai village and see if you can fill in the names of the people who once lived in these houses.

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Researchers, resource managers, educators and others use your data for scientific discovery and decision- making. Your data collection is important! Phenology data help us predict threats to people and the environment such as wildfires, drought or flooding. They help us decide the timing of events, First, become an observer on the Then you can download the from when to harvest or irrigate land National Phenololgy Network Natures Notebook iPhone to when to conduct controlled burns website. Then select the BLM Arcata App and begin observing! in forests. Field Office, Trinidad Museum site. bit.ly/1mvmzoP bit.ly/1jCDlma Old Home Beach

CaliforniaCCNM Trinidad Coastal Gateway National Junior Monument Explorer Junior Activity Explorer Book Activity Book 2222 CCNM Trinidad Gatewaybased on Junior University Explorer of Activity California Book | 1949 archeological exploration of Tsurai 2323 dIP nETS Yurok Canoe The Tsurai people use A-frame dip nets, A large part of the Yurok culture is centered River (Me’tsko or Srepor). Just as in the past, like the ones you find at the Trinidad along the water’s edge, and ancestral villages are the Tsurai Village, Tsurewa, and the offshore Museum, on local sandy beaches to catch concentrated along the coast and Klamath River. rocks continue to be components of the Yurok surf perch, or surf smelt. Tsurai, meaning mountain, is the southernmost cultural landscape embedded with deep cultural, permanent village within Yurok territory. The historical, and spiritual significance to the Tsurais village domain extends north from Trinidad of the Yurok people. The canoe is a symbol of Head (Tsurewa) to Beach Creek (O prmrg wroi) life and is important to the Yurok people for several miles up the coast, and south to Little travel, food gathering, and religious ceremonies.

Yurok canoes are carved from a single log of a redwood. Visit the canoe at the Canoe Parts National Park Service Trinidad Museum and fill the names of bow heart US Department of the Interior each part of the canoe. Redwood Department of Parks and Recreation stern ribs National and State Parks State of California nose kidneys

The Making of a Yurok Canoe Did you see the dip nets? Which size do you think you would use?

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urok elders Dewey George of a Yurok canoe: square prow, and Jimmy James carved gradually curving underside, a heart CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer ActivityY Book this canoe in 1968 with help near24 the front, and a CCNMseat andTrinidad foot Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 25 from Jimmy James Jr. and Chuck braces in back. To use this canoe on Donahue. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Paul the river, the sides and bottom would commissioned the canoe for display require further thinning for at Paul’s Cannery in Klamath, maximum maneuverability. California, and Mrs. Paul later donated it to the park in 1987. You might notice water in the canoe. The water prevents the The canoe is 18 feet long, 3½ feet canoe from drying out and wide, and 1½ feet deep. It was made splitting. from one half of a solid redwood log and reflects the traditional features

From the Beginning Yurok people have always been The canoe was an essential part of closely tied to fresh and salt water. each family’s household. Without Their main staple foods were fish one, the families would be limited to and eels, along with acorns, berries, local travel or to paying someone and deer meat. People travelled else, usually with dentalium shells extensively by canoe: fishing, eeling, (as money), for a ride to their hunting, gathering food and basket destination. Canoes were also used making materials, visiting friends for the Boat Dance, an integral part and family, attending ceremonial of the White Deerskin Dance, which dances, and trading all types of was held every two years as a world items. Longer, sturdier canoes were renewal ceremony. used to hunt sea lions offshore and to ferry people and goods along the coast.

Traditional Construction Coast redwood trees (Sequoia Rarely would a carver use an elk sempervirens) have always been the antler wedge and stone maul to cut Elk Antler Wedge and Stone Maul preferred wood for Yurok canoe- down a massive standing redwood making. Found in abundance in the tree. Rather, trees knocked over in a coastal areas of , storm or felled by lightning were redwood is resistant to insect damage most often used for canoe-making. and rotting, both essential to the When choosing a tree, the canoe- longevity of a canoe left year-round maker looked for one that would not on the streambank. split easily, ensuring a solid, sturdy canoe.

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food supply. However, when a species is introduced — accidentally or intentionally — into a new landscape there? Who’s that is not used to its presence, the consequences can be devastating. Most of these “non-native” species do not knock. Knock, misbehave. But some non-native species spread unchecked by the lack of natural competitors and predators.

They push out native species and cause ecological chaos. These are known as “invasive” species.

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highly invasive exotic plant first introduced to such as hiking, bird watching, and wildflower Folding Instructions How to Play: Humboldt County with European settlement. As viewing. Without treatment, English ivy will 1. Cut along the dotted line. 1. This game is for two players. Ask the other player to pick 2. Place Weedy Widget this side down (side with the most writing). an invasive plant, like ‘English Ivy.’ English ivy spreads, it alters natural ecosystems, continue to flourish resulting in loss of habitat for 3. Fold each corner to the center so that you have a smaller square. 2. Open and close the Weedy Widget in an alternating 4. Turn the folded square over and fold each corner to the center direction for each letter of the phrase quickly crowding out native vegetation on the native species. Find out how you can help be a again. (ex. E N G L I S H I V Y (10 times.) 5. Fold this square in half to crease it. Undo that fold and fold in 3. Ask the question under the chosen topic and let the other forest floor. The ivy grows up trees weighing part of the ‘No Ivy League’, half the other way. player answer. Lift the flap to find the answer. 6. Using both hands, place your thumbs and index fingers under down branches and may eventually kill the tree. www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov the flaps.

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As a Bureau of Land Management Junior Explorer, I promise to: • do all I can to help preserve and protect the natural and cultural resources on our public lands, • be aware of how my actions can affect other living things and the evidence of our past, • keep learning about the importance of our heritage, and • share what I have learned with others.

When an invasive species is brought into a new place, it can cause INTRODUCED PLANT native species, the ones that have been there for a long time, to die Brought from another part of the world by people. Some are Date Staff Signature Explorer Signature out. planted on purpose in gardens and farms, but others came here by accident. Not all are invasive. NATIVE PLANT Plants whose relatives have grown in nature in this part of the INVASIVE PLANT world for a long, long time. They are eaten by local animals, A kind of plant, usually from another part of the world, that grows including insects. Many kinds of native plants grow together in one and spreads in such big numbers that they crowd out native plant place. populations. They are like bullies!

CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 28 CCNM Trinidad Gateway Junior Explorer Activity Book 29 Answer Key READY for MORE? Water Safety Smarts 1 Pick up a CCNM map and head out for a hike around Trinidad Head.

DOGS 2 Visit the HSU Marine Lab and see if you can find Elvira, the wolf eel or T touch a seas star in the touch tank. 3SNEAKERWAV ES a E 3 Find other public lands to explore in Humboldt County by visiting: n 4R IPC URRENTS redwood-edventures.org/ d B c TI5 DE 4 Pick up the Headwaters Forest Reserve and King Range National 6TSUN AMI A Conservation Area. Junior Explorer Activity Books at the BLM Arcata v 7CALL911 Field Office or the King Range Project Office. Once you complete all e H three books, bring them back to one of the offices and receive a poster, E pin or Jr. Explorer badge! 8 Helpful Kelp CLI FFS All items in the cupboard Collect All 3! have kelp in them!

SEABIRD CHALLENGE QUIZ More Places in California 1. eggs to fall Tale of Two Forest 2. they may abandon their nest Same to Explore 3. true Spruce and kelp forests both photo synthesize, 4. true provide habitat for many animals, withstand the salty • Carrizo Plain National Monument 5. false ocean environment and grow in multiples called • Fort Ord National Monument forests. • Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains How do you say Cher-Ae Anyway? Differences National Monument salmon - ney-puey • Piedras Blancas Light Station Outstanding Kelp has air bladders, Spruce roots transport water ling cod - lo-tuen Natural Area Use your smart phone to scan and nutrients. Kelp holdfast does not carry nutrients, surf smelt - hehl-kues-leg • Headwaters Forest Reserve the QR code and find out more only works as an anchor. about Redwood Edventures! crab - ko’-ses • King Range National Conservation Area kelp - paa-moh Whale Bones sea star - ko-yaakw’ Whale bones: 1. Rib bone, 2. Jaw bone, 3. Whale skull, mussels - pee-’eeh 4. Whale skull, 5. Whale vertebra, 6. Jaw bone

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