Scavenger Hunt

                       Scavenger Hunt Photo edition!

Throughout the internship, you will use your smartphone to take surveys and photos. See how many images you can capture of the items on this scavenger hunt. Start now by taking one photo from the list!

• Selfie
• Invasive plants, such as bull thistle or musk thistle, Russian olive, or tamarisk. There are many other invasive plants, and you can find some of them in the PEEC weed guide or the  NMSU guidebook.
• Native plants
  • Trees – See the PEEC tree guide for examples, including Ponderosa pine, Rocky Mountain juniper, One seed juniper, Piñon pine, Aspen, Gambel oak, Douglas fir, and White fir.
  • Wildflowers (Forbs) – See this link for examples, including Penstemon-many species, Primrose, and Fleabane.
  • Grasses – See this field guide for examples, including Blue grama and Alkali sacaton. 
• Soil erosion – See the NRDC website for examples, including rill erosion, an incised gully, a headcut, a rutted road that is not well drained, a cut bank on a river, a soil erosion problem that could be addressed, or something that could be hard to fix.
• Erosion control structure that will reverse soil loss
• Forest that appears to have too many trees
• Forest that has good amount of trees
• Another intern
• Something that inspires wonder
• Insect 
• Mammal
• Funny/ironic sign
• Beaver dam
• Human-made structure that is helpful for plants and soil
• Human-made structure that is unhelpful for plants and soil