{"id":176,"date":"2016-10-31T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T22:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/nisqually-puzzle\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2017-09-18T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T22:28:12","slug":"puzzle-booklet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/nisqually-puzzle\/puzzle-booklet\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle Booklet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PuzzleBooklet\"<\/p>\n

The puzzle booklet contains a brief history of the Nisqually Delta and the efforts of local citizens, the Nisqually Tribe, and the U.S. Government to restore it.\u00a0 The booklet provides illustrated instructions on how to assemble the puzzle and activities designed to teach map reading and plant and animal identification.\u00a0 Preview the Booklet contents below.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0Download <\/a> the puzzle booklet to your computer.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Print \u00a0<\/strong>the puzzle\u00a0 booklet using the double-sided feature of your printer on legal size paper (8.5″ x 14″).\u00a0 Be sure to choose the short edge binding option in the double-sided printing menu.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you don’t have a double-sided printer,\u00a0 then print the even number pages first, turn the paper over in the paper feeder and print the odd numbered pages.\u00a0 To obtain better color images use a print shop like Fed Ex, Minute-Man Press, Staples, or Office Depot.<\/p>\n

3. Bind\u00a0<\/a><\/strong> the Puzzle booklet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Preview<\/strong>\u00a0 booklet contents:<\/p>\n

Nisqually Delta Restoration Puzzle Booklet<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Discover with me the important estuary<\/span> restoration at the Nisqually Delta in South Puget Sound, Washington. Estuaries, some of the most productive habitats on the planet, are places where rivers reach the sea. At the estuary<\/span>, the river slows down, drops its load of sand and silt and creates a fan shape of tiny little shifting creeks that look like the human circulatory system. Protected from battering waves and storms, this area of mixing of salt and fresh waters along tiny waterways provides food and shelter for hundreds of species of plants and animals. Healthy estuaries have a variety of habitats like salt marshes, mud flats, and eel grass beds that sustain a diversity of species. The incoming and outgoing tides are the lifeblood of the system.<\/p>\n

Watch the restoration happen by assembling this puzzle depicting the Nisqually River Delta between Olympia and DuPont, Washington.\u00a0 Each tile has two sides that represent different futures for the Delta.\u00a0 One side\u00a0 features dikes and the invasive dominant Reed Canary Grass; the other shows the impact of removing the dikes and restoring the salt marsh estuary<\/span> to provide habitat for salt marsh plants and diverse species of wild plants and animals.<\/p>\n

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Step 1<\/strong>:\u00a0 Look at a tile.\u00a0 Notice that each tile has an outer map-like frame and an interior image of a plant or animal.<\/p>\n

Step 2<\/strong>:\u00a0 Turn each tile so that the Reed Canary Grass tiles all face up.\u00a0 Match the map area of the tiles to create the image of the Nisqually River Delta before the restoration when the agricultural dikes kept salt water out.<\/p>\n

Once you line up all of the tiles, the image will look like the image below, Before the Restoration.<\/p>\n

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Before the Restoration<\/p><\/div>\n

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This side of the\u00a0 puzzle illustrates that the dikes keep out the salt water and allow one dominant invasive species, Reed Canary Grass, to thrive.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Step 3<\/strong>:\u00a0 Read the map key below.\u00a0 Can you identify each feature of the map?\u00a0 Which features are missing or harder to identify?\u00a0 Can you identify the plant you see inside the map frame?<\/p>\n

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