Me holding a rock! The Dam once it was finished!
Today we went on a Field Trip to the base of Frye Mesa to build an erosion dam. The Gila Valley is a highly eroded area and every year the environmental class builds a dam to help stop the erosion. Erosion happens when the land is overused by animals and humans. Negative effects of erosion are recieving water sedimentation, ecosystme damage, and loss of soil. We built the dam by putting big rocks in a line, as soon as we had enough we started putting small rocks on it, then we stood there and threw stones on one side until there was enough to pool up the water. With our whole class working on this it took less than an hour and it will benefit the land. Even though it is just one small dam in a small area it felt good to know that we took the time to do something in an effort to try and help!
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