Welcome to our news team!
Today is your first day as a journalist, and we have an assignment for you!
An agricultural company is proposing to convert part of the Shale Hills area south of State College into a farm by cutting down an acre of trees.
We need you to dig into this situation and find out what the consequences—good, bad, or other--will be to our community and beyond.
This area is called the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (SSHCZO), a 7.9 ha V-shaped forested catchment that lies within the Valley and Ridge Physiographic Province of the Appalachian Mountains in Central Pennsylvania. This is where scientists study the "critical zone".
We need you to dig into this situation and find out what the consequences—good, bad, or other--will be to our community and beyond.
This area is called the Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory (SSHCZO), a 7.9 ha V-shaped forested catchment that lies within the Valley and Ridge Physiographic Province of the Appalachian Mountains in Central Pennsylvania. This is where scientists study the "critical zone".
Here we prepared some material on Shale Hills for you to study.
In the next four pages we will show you Shale Hills, where you'll learn more about the critical zone and how water affects the different components of the critical zone.
We hope this will help you give our community a good understanding of what might be going on there.
In the next four pages we will show you Shale Hills, where you'll learn more about the critical zone and how water affects the different components of the critical zone.
We hope this will help you give our community a good understanding of what might be going on there.