Unique to Solebury's recreational offerings is Aquetong Spring Park, a 48-acre park with many natural trails winding their way throughout in a variety of directions, in addition to the paved trail connector that parallels U.S. Route 202. The park is a recreational, interpretive and educational resource in a passive setting that emphasizes its environmentally sensitive location and surroundings.
The Aquetong Watershed is a small rural watershed located in the Aquetong Valley in New Hope and Solebury Pennsylvania. Measuring just 7.6 square miles. It is classified as a High Quality-Cold Water Fishery by the PA Department of Environmental Protection, underlain by limestone and dolomite geological formations.
Releasing 2 million gallons a day, at one time to short creek powered 7 mills. It had a dam (with lake 22 feet at deepest)that was in disrepair and was removed. As this is a cold water spring, the temperature does not vary too much.
There are a wide variety and native plants, the Aquatong Watershed Society worked hard to eliminate many invasive species. Here you will find such natives as witch hazel, field horsetail, wild geranium, and petunias,even Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata (yes that mushroom)
In scientific writing (and in science in general), common names are rarely used. The Latin binomial (i.e. "scientific name") is used instead. There are several important rules regarding the use of scientific names. Failure to follow these rules in your writing flags you immediately as an amateur scientist, so make it a practice to follow them.
1. Scientific names are always italicized.
2. The genus is always capitalized.
3. The species is never capitalized,
4. In its first use within a particular document, the genus is always written in full. In subsequent uses, the genus can be abbreviated using the first initial and a period. e.g. E. coli [so you need just the first letters in sequential order, easy, eh?]
5. A species name is never used without a genus or genus abbreviation. e.g.: write Tribolium confusum or T. confusum but never just confusum. (so don’t get confused)
N 40 AB.CDE
W 74 FG.HIJ
NOTE: Stage AA and BB coords are almost identical so difficult to see on map. Stage AA ID fungus and stage BB-ID-Tree (helpful-Fungus almost always grows on and kills stage BB) You may search in any order you wish to ID needed info in any order