Posts Tagged ‘redwoods’

Review: The Avenue of the Giants and Humboldt Redwoods State Park

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Last weekend, we went up the 101 to Humboldt Redwood State Park and checked out the Avenue of the Giants. After we had researched their website, we picked a campground and planned hikes and a trip to nearby Arcata and Eureka. This review gives a rundown of our campground pick and recommendations.

Episode 2: Water Quality Control

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

In this episode, the Green Rapper heads to Redwood Creek in Marin County to talk water quality with Doug Kern. Doug is a scientist and teacher who is involved with restoration of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Doug shows us how to collect critical data about this precious resource. Find out how clean your tap water is compared with filtered water and water from a creek. Also, the Green Rapper finally gets confronted on his bathroom manners and then freestyles about it.

Here are the results of our water quality monitoring:

Water Type Total Dissolved Solids (mg/L)
Bottled Water 300
City Tap Water 209
City Tap Water (Brita filtered) 61.5
Redwood Creek 84.4

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