January 22, 2025

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We Are the shoreline group of the siuslaw middle school team team. Our goal is to find evidence of living and nonliving organisms in the wrack line of mile 161, like jellyfish,clams,starfish and birds.We also will be looking at the environment for dead sea weed,bones,unmoved rocks and berries to see if living and dead things are there. You also may be wondering what a wrack line is,it is the area on a beach where organic materials and other debris is Disposed at high tide. We brought with us binoculars, Coastwatch data sheet, and a Bucket for trash. We will be using binoculars to watch the coastline by using a data sheet to help us collect the data of the mile 161 coastline. We are also using buckets to see what we can find in the sand and other things like dirt, sand, and rock. And we were drawing a square in the sand to collect data in a small area instead of having to look at everything around us. In the end we found lots of evidence of living things along with non living on the wrack line of mile 161. We found birds and we found Sand dollars, Sea pickles, Dead crabs, Plastic Shells, Shrimp exoskeleton, Dead jellyfish, and European beach grass. We also found a deck/table that was washed up on the beach. We also found a lot of snowy plovers, as well as this dead bird that was in 2 parts. We also found a mysterious object on the beach that was green and had weird stuff in it. We don't know what is yet