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i've been working in the tide pools in this area
for fifteen years.
My main concern has been
human impacts, whether that be non-native species
or whether that be human visitors.
I’ve done a lot of work on visitors.
So like I said this site here gets a high amount of people coming here. They’re
trampling on things, they’re handling things. Some people collect organisms
and plants and take them back home. And we’re all concerned with how do we protect
these tide pool habitats,
habitats that are heavily impacted by people.
and you know we all recognize that we want people to
come here. We want people to care about these areas. At the same time we
want people to visit them safely. And be able to
enjoy this habitat without ruining it at the same time.
Sometimes, that’s difficult.
So today we are removing the nonnative Seaweed from the tide pools. We’re
Also going to transplant surf grass.
Right now they’re taking out the biomass, Taking out the holdfast
And then we’ll try to find some surf grass That we can pull off the rocks
and be able to move into
these tide pools. For things like this algae in this tide pool
it sort of makes this canopy over the top of
the tide pool. What I think hands what I think happens here is that that canopy
actually ameliorates the impact of
being exposed to the air
The tide pool doesn’t heat up as much
The salinity doesn’t change that much all because this canopy is there.
So if we remove the canopy, then the tide pool might heat up more
it might change in salinity, it might have changes in oxygen,
those types of things. It might negatively impact the native species.
So actually one of the things we’re going to look at is
trying to replace that non-native canopy in the tide pool
With a native canopy. So I’m moving
Over surf grass, which kind of floats at the
surface, too.
And try to see whether
First of all whether that would be successful Second of all whether it will
Mimic the canopy behavior that this nonnative is providing.