WELCOME 2012 Trainees!
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WELCOME 2012 Trainees!
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THANK YOU!
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CORE THEMES
• Everything is connected• Nature is dynamic• Human values impact natural systems
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Pennsylvania Master Naturalist
Understanding Ecoregions
“In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is
the story of the earth.”--Rachel Carson
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Ecoregions bring order to something complex – the natural
landscape.
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Pennsylvania Level II Ecoregions
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Pennsylvania Level III Ecoregions
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Southeastern and Coastal Plains
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Northern PiedmontPiedmont Upland, Piedmont Limestone/
Dolomite Lowland, Triassic Lowland
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Northern PiedmontPiedmont Uplands
• Rounded hills, low ridges, high relief and narrow valleys.
• Substantially higher relief than neighboring ecoregions.
• Folded and faulted paleozoic and precambrian metamorphic rock.
• Deep Ultisols and Inceptisols are common soils. Chrome soils from serpentinite also occur.
• The Chrome soils support eastern serpentine barrens (Chester, Delaware, and Lancaster counties)
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Northern PiedmontPiedmont Limestone/Dolomite Lowlands
• Nearly level, undulating terrain consisting of sink holes, caverns, and disappearing streams.
• Ordovician limestone predominates, dolomite and shale also occur.
• Soils are derived largely from carbonate rock and are very fertile.
• Soils support a natural vegetation of Appalachian Oak Forest (white and red oak), which has been almost entirely replaced by general farming.
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Northern PiedmontTriassic Lowlands
• Wide undulating ridges, broad valleys, limited local relief.
• Underlain by sedimentary rock.
• Soils are derived triassic sandstone, shale, siltstone, and argillite.
• Soils support a natural vegetation of Appalachian Oak forest (dominated by red and white oaks).
• Supports a mosaic of dairy farms, houses, and woodland.
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Natural Communities of theNorthern Piedmont
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Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain:Delaware River Terraces & Uplands
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Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain:Delaware River Terraces & Uplands
• Low, nearly level terraces.
• Ocean modified climate.
• Saline marsh deposits dominate; alluvial and estuarine sand and silt also widespread.
• Underlain by unconsolidated and easily eroded Quaternary gravels, sands and silts.
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Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain:Delaware River Terraces & Uplands
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Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain:Delaware River Terraces & Uplands
Coastal Plain Leopard Frog Rana utricularia
Red-bellied TurtlePseudemys rubriventris
King RailRalas elegans elegans
Bog Turtle Clemmys muhlenbergii
Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus flammeus
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PA Endangered Plants
swamp beggar-ticksBidens bidentoides
river bank quillwortIsoetes riparia
coast violet Viola brittoniana
ArrowheadSagittaria calycina
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The Urban Ecosystem
Biological Social
Physical/Built