My Home Paper: Reference Images

Figure 1. My Home

Figure 2. My Oak Tree






















Figure 3. My Mantle




















Figure 4. Sauk Relocation Map























Figure 5. Present-day Ojibway Island




















Figure 6. Princing's Pharmacy




















Figure 7-8. Nouvel Monument, Ojibway Island


























Figure 9/10. Saginaw's Water Treatment Plant/Saginaw River




In relation to water, during Father Nouvel’s journey to Saginaw he mistook Squaconning for the Tittabawassee river and paddled six miles upstream to what is now Delta College (Kilar 11). The Squaconning, or Dutch Creek, is now nothing more than a well-dug drainage ditch that resembles nothing of the historic waterway it once was (Kilar 11). Saginaw and the surrounding 22 counties drain into the Saginaw River system, “via the main water arteries of the Cass, Tittabawasee, Flint, and Shiawassee Rivers. The Saginaw Bay watershed is the largest watershed in Michigan (8,709 square miles), draining approximately 15% of Michigan’s land area” (Eagle). It is evitable that our sewage goes back into out water environment, “be it surface water for waste water treatment plans or groundwater for on-site septic systems. [However], our public systems are greatly in need of upgrades and many of our residential onsite systems are antiquated and in need of repairs” (Eagle) . It is amazing to think that the same water we now process for drinking shaped Michigan and it’s many industries.





Figure 11. Site of Saginaw's first building in 1816 - now a parking lot
















The ties to land Saginaw holds are primarily through the naming of streets; The McCarty family owned more land than any other family with 800 acres in 40-80 acres plots in the N.W. part of Saginaw Township (Stroebel 39). The Meadows subdivision is off of the major cross roads McCarty and Hemmeter. Hemmeter road was named after Hemmeter farm’s which just recently closed a few months ago due to lack of business. Unfortunately even farming isn’t what it once was in Saginaw. Another sign of the times was the present day location of the first building in Saginaw by Campau in 1816 . It is located at what is now Throop Street in the downtown area of Saginaw and is nothing more than a parking lot overlooking the polluted river (Mitchell 11).

My Home Paper: Video Clips

Virtual Tour of The Meadows





First building of Saginaw site - Campau's fort in 1816

Observation Paper II - Plant vs. Human Interaction

I've included some visuals to go along with my second observation paper.

This is the view I take in every time I go visit my tree:



This is a still image of my tree:














Here is a picture of the bark which is what I love most about the tree:


























Here is an image of the leaves in perfect bundles of three:

















Here is a scanned leaf set: