Deforestation

Welcome to Deforestation! Our workshop leader was Karen Tryon.

by Monster** One freezing, dark night in the middle of the forest, BBBbbrrrr, Bat found an oak tree. He slept in it for the next day.
 * Bat and the Mighty Trees: a New Hampshire Legend

When sunset came again, Bat woke up to get some food. He stretched his black wings out from his furry body, then swooped out of the tree to find a juicy mosquito.

Bat clamped onto a branch of the enormous tree, hung upside down, and got ready to snooze through the day because he is nocturnal.

When the sky was all colorful like a million blooming flowers, Bat woke up, ready to eat. He swooped through the cool, crisp air, dove down, and gulped the big, juicy, luscious insect. Ummm, that was delicious.

Every morning Black Bat came back to the tree to sleep, and he would get sticky sap on his fur and wings. As he took off, a tiny seed from his tree would get glued to the sap.

As he soared and dove and glided for the insects, seeds fell off all around the land. Seeds fell off as he was flying back to the tree each morning time, all sleepy and full.

Bat flew through the sky with the seeds stuck to his fur. He zapped around to get the flies and mosquitoes, and every time he swooped down, more of the seeds tumbled down from his fur. They swayed and bumped down out of the sky. They hit the ground.

Bat hunted all night long over the land, night after night, and wherever he went, seeds were falling down.

The toppled to the ground, and they got buried. Rainstorms watered them.

Later, when Black Bat went out at dusk, he saw tiny green plants sprouting everywhere he had been flying over the land.

The next night when he came out, they were bigger. Every night they were bigger and bigger, until the whole land was covered with trees.

That’s how the great forests of New Hampshire came to be.

//**Bat Research by Monster**//

I used my research on the geography of New Hampshire to add accurate New Hampshire geography facts into my legend. Bats look a bit like rats or opossums. The eat insects like flies or mosquitoes. They can crawl or fly. Their habitat is trees, caves, the forest, and the woods. One interesting fact I learned is that there are over 900 different kinds of bats.