Mrs. Renz's 4th Grade Class  Redmond, Oregon

 

JASON Disappearing Wetlands 

How Many Nutria Are Too Many? 

Jan. 2005

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Beans represent 

plant life in each 

plot of wetlands.

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Nutria are feeding 

in this plot

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Recording nutria 

feeding sites.  

One "eat out" 

has occurred in plot 13.

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Yikes!  This 

plot of wetlands 

now has 4 "eat outs"!

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Drawing numbers 

to see which plot 

of land the nutria 

is eating from.

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Recording your data 

is important!

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Young scientists 

hard at work.

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Two eats out 

have occurred.

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