Last year I had the good fortune to meet Statia Ryder, the South Coast and Lower Rogue Watersheds Education Coordinator. That's her in the picture with the kids, she is amazing! After hearing one of my presentations on the Port Orford Ocean Resource Team and how we wanted to bring together the land and sea with water quality issues, she said Let's Collaborate! We decided to bring the ocean into the watershed model to literally create the whole picture. After many months of brute strength, sheer determination, and some artistic flair, the stream trailer was ready to debut with it's new additions. For those of you who don't know, a stream trailer is a 3-dimensional model of a watershed. The major construction components are foam, grout, surgical tubing, water pump, and a trailer. Remember that saying- "a picture is worth a thousand words".....well, today at Bullards Beach State Park students from Myrtlecreek learned a lot of new words....maybe not a thousand words, but lots of important ones like; watershed, estuary, habitat, precipitation, evaporation, pollution, rocky intertidal, and you can guess the rest of them :)