2017

The day started off early and windy, and of course the wind would blow from the worst possible direction, south. by the time we were done at the grocery store getting gear we would need for the coming events we all knew it was going to be a long kayak trip. unloading the kayaks and

Texas Field ecology was a great trip, but I feel the most rounded day was when we kayaked the ocean and had the opportunity to do some salt water seining. The day started with a kayak trip through the mangroves. The trip out to the beach we had a very rough paddle, being the winds

Big thicket, Texas Freshwater Fish Sampling 4/23/17   On our way to Texas we stayed at Big Thicket for two full days. Each day the class divided into two groups.  One group would do fish sampling with Dr. Willams and the others would do canoeing and plant identifying and collections with Dr. Dennhardt.  On the

Drew Aronson Texas Trip Lauren Dennhardt and Casey Williams 5/8/2017 Fish Seining Anytime we got to seine for fish was my favorite time. When we got down there I was surprised to see what they call creeks. Their creeks are like our rivers up here. The first day I got to seine on this trip

On April 21, we left for a 10-day road trip to different areas south of our homeland of Valley City. We started off driving 12 hours to Big Thicket where we stayed for two nights. First day we seined fish and insects. Which is what’s pictured. You can look at the Long-Eared Sunfish that our

After our first night staying at the Big Thicket Field Research Station, the crew was up early for our first field experience in East Texas. The class was divided up into two vans, one with six students and the other with eight. The van I was included in was the fifteen-passenger van with eight students

On April 26th, we woke up and got rolling. We packed up our things and headed up to Aransas Pass. We met up with our guide Dean, who owned Slowride Guide Services. He does Eco-tours and also guided fishing trips with kayaks for redfish, trout, and whatever else there is to catch. We met him

  Upon waking on April 23, we a group of eight from Valley City State University made our way to the Big Sandy Creek. Our objective was to identify and collect species through seining. The group split into two teams and sampled different parts of the river. We seined and identified fish with the help

  Texas, a state known for their long-horned cows, size, and to us, their poisonous snakes. At Big Thicket we had a few close encounters with some deadly snakes. To start out the day, half of the class jumped into the van, including me, to go seine some fish while the other half went canoeing.