CEWC Evidence of People EarthCache
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Note, this cache is along the yellow trail at CEWC, please stay on the trail. As you walk along the yellow trail, regardless of which direction you walk, you will pass numerous rocks. Some are obviously piled in place by earlier land uses. Others are in their natural environment and have not been moved. Note what other evidence you can see of man’s influence on the land.
If you walk the Blue trail, you will travel near a large rock outcrop. Rock Outcrops particularly harsh habitat type found mostly on the Piedmont is the rock outcrop. Georgia boasts a large number of rock outcrops including the largest in the world, Stone Mountain. Rock outcrops can be either Manadnocks, which rise above the surrounding piedmont like Stone Mountain, Arabia Mountain and Panola Mountain, or they can be simple flat-rock or pavement rock outcrops, like the one at CEWC. However, the rocks along the yellow trail are not part of the outcrop but are Granite floaters.
To get credit for this cache, travel to the posted coordinates. At this site you will observe several large rocks across the stream. Send me the answers to the following questions:
1. Do you see any evidence that people have disturbed these rocks? If so, in what way?
2. Look in the stream bed. Is so much sand in a stream bed a natural occurrence in a piedmont stream such as this?
3. If not, what do you think caused the sand build up?
No travel downstream 350 feet to
N33 27.502
W083 44.268
At this location you should be standing on a large rock in the stream. To be sure you are on the correct rock, look back up stream and to your left. On the bank is a fallen beech tree. You should be looking at the base of the fallen tree and its trunk “points’ to the rock in question.
This rock has definitely been disturbed by people.
4. What evidence do you see on this rock of disturbance by people?
5. Why do you think this rock and others up and down this stream were “damaged” in such a way?
6. How long ago would you guess that this “damage” occurred?
Man’s influence on the land lasts many, many years.
Please email me the answers to the questions on the same day in which you post a found log for the cache.
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