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The area I have chosen is part of the Burnaby Mountain Conservation Area shown below.
The area is 1.85 km2. The part of the mountain I have chosen rises from roughly 160m to 290m above sea level. The majority of the area I have chosen is covered in forest with hiking trails and a high voltage power line going through. I have visited my site twice once on November 24th at 3:30pm. The temperature was around 7 C and the ground was wet. The second time was on December 8th from 1:00pm-3:00pm. The temperature was around 10 C and the ground was wet. The animals that live on the mountain include deer, squirrels, coyotes, raccoons, mice, rats, steller’s jay, and humming birds. There are many varieties of plants including ferns, maple trees, dogwood, Douglas fir, western hemlock, an
Red cedar. There are an innumerable amount of fungi. I have included several photos of the trail showing the power line surrounded by grasses and small shrubs in Figure 2, a mountain train in Figure 3 surrounded by forest and ferns.
The area is popular for dog walkers and mountain bikers. As such seeing any animals besides squirrels is uncommon as they shy away from humans. From my walks I had the following questions:
- Fungi are abundant in the forest why there are not any along the power line trail?
- What trees are indigenous to the area and which have been brought in?
- What parts of the study area have been logged if not the whole area in the past 100 years?
