A Mural Created by The Hendrix Home
School for The Global Schoolhouse and The Wyland Foundation
By Nicole, age 7 and Beth, age 5
This is our interpretation of West Lake. We used grass, twigs, leaves, posterboard, paints and digital effects to create our mural of a local lake habitat.
West Lake is located in Gunn Park in Fort Scott, Kansas. It is maintained by the City of Fort Scott and stocked by the state of Kansas. This fall over 1900 channel catfish were moved to this lake from local hatcheries. The lake is the home to blue gill, sunfish, bullhead catfish, bass, crappie, carp, and flathead catfish. Frogs, turtles, lizards, snakes and crawdads live in and around the lake. Water spiders, mayflies, mosquitoes, dragonflies, ladybugs, wasps, horseflies, honeybees, and ants are some of the insects that inhabit the lake area.
Small mammals such as rabbits and squirrels are seen regularly. Blue birds, blue jays, sparrows, cardinals, robins, finch, woodpeckers, starlings and crows nest in numerous oaks and maples that surround the water. Several duck species stay at the lake year around.
Human intervention affects the eco-web as the ducks are fed grain and the fish are maintained with fish feeders.
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