Rachel
Stadfeld
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Benjamin Psaros
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Title: A report on the structural and natural earth processes at the
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historical
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Shelburne Farms landscape and other natural changes made in the past
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100 years.
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The basic idea of the project is to determine the amount of change the
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landscape
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(forestation, runoff, lake effects) that has occurs over the last 100
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years. We
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do not intend to have staggering numerical data however we intend to
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closely
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analize
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the photographs we have chosen from years past to the ones we have
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taken
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recently
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of the same exact locations. We
plan to discuss the nature or
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vegetation, along
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with water level, retreat and others.
We also plan to have class
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discussion
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about
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what they see in the photographs.
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The Webb family has taken good consideration in maintaining their land
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not to
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mention
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documenting it. They have a huge
selection of photgraphs and written
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works we
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have
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chosen to use. We have taken
pictures from the same locations and
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plan to
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compare
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them in a classroom setting.
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The lake being one of the borders of the farms gives us another
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interesting
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aspect
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to study. Each of the coastal
photographs we have chosen is very
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interesting
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due
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to the nature of the water line and what the waters of lake champlain
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has carved
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out
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of the cliffs over the past 100 years.
We have also found that there
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are some
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very interesting outcrops by the coast line and I know that is not
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really are
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project
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and we are to focus on the lanscape we do intend to discuss the
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outcrops a bit.
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The main idea is to re-examine artistic photographs with how the
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location
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appears
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today and develope some hypothesis' about the formations of the
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