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 Over the past few weeks I've explored some familiar areas while back home. I visited one of my favorite spots the Ipswich River Nature Preserve! This is one of my favorite places to relax and be out in nature because its one of the closest and biggest nature preserves near me. The Nature preserve sits on Teal Pond which stretches across most of it. My girlfriend and I went on Sunday morning and the weather was beautiful. We were welcomed by all sorts of birds that were colorful against the green grass. I saw a lot of tracks in the snow, some were small others were big, I wondered what made them. As we were walking down the trail I saw many types of mushrooms, some were on trees others were coming out the ground and varied in color.  I could tell the leaves beneath our feet were starting to decompose into soil.  The trees for the most part were begining to look bare, there was little shade as we walked. The last time I was here the trees had all their leaves and the fores...

  Section 1: The endangered species. The New Zealand Sea Lion are similar to seals but they pend more time on land. They are found near the Auckland and Campbell islands and to some extent around the coast of New Zealand's South and Stewart islands. On the food chain the New Zealand Sea Lion is a consumer that   eat a  wide variety of vertebrate and invertebrate prey . Frequently eaten species include opal fish, Munida, hoki, oblique-banded rattail, salps, octopus, squid, and crustaceans. Predators of the New Zealand Sea Lion include adult male sea lions and Great white sharks. They bread in colonies on beaches during the winter months. One a pup is born mother's are said to being them inland while they forage for food in the ocean to prevent hookworm and to keep away from the males fighting for territory. According to the IUCN Redlist there are only 3031 mature individuals still alive and that population is continually decreasing.   ...