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Field Pack 3.2 Field pack completion sheet
On the yellow sheet that you send in with your work there is a typo on some people's sheet. Under 2. Resource Trail at the bottom sentence it says "Please only send us copies of 3 of your individual" and the sentence ends there. It should read "your individual families."

Resource Trail
For Field Packs 3.2-3.4 you will only be journaling the families and orders of Mammals, Plants, Ecological indicators, Trees and Birds. You will journal 60 species for Field Pack 3.5. This is not an update rather a reminder.

For Field Pack 3.2 we ask you to start with Chapter 6 (Trees). We re-arranged things to make the start of Kamana 3 less of a mountain than it originally was. In re-arranging things there were some typos left in both Chapter 4 (Plants) and Chapter 6. Originally, students journalled the Plants section first and then the Trees.

In the Trees Chapter on page 135 of the newest print there is a Section titled "Families of Woody Plants." This section assumes you have done family journals before. You haven't. Please ignore references to anything that assumes you have done this process before.

The most confusing reference comes on page 137 (just underneath the 1. Taxaceae (Yew Family), p. 245-47) where it mentions:

After listing the scientific name, common name, and page numbers, take out your list of herb families and compare the two. If there are any families that turn up on both lists you can go ahead and skip them now.

Disregard this for journalling your tree families. But when you do your plant families in Field Pack 3.3 this will be applicable. The basic idea here is that you don't need to repeat a journal for a family that has both a tree and a plant in your area (The Rose Family would be a common example).

Kamana 3 Resources
Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs now comes in Eastern and Western regional guides.

We are adding the Golden Guide to Weather to our required resource list. It provides an exellent introduction to weather patterns and formations.

Skeleton and Skulls and Bones have been increasingly harder to find. For a skulls replacement Mark Elbroch has created another tome called Animal Skulls. It has hundreds of skull drawings from different angles. It is mostly composed of mammal skulls, but it has some birds, reptiles and amphibians. The text is a bit more scientific than I prefer. This is somewhere between a field guide for lay-people and a college-level textbook. It's an excellent resource, regardless.

Two outstanding bones books are Avian Osteology and Mammalian Osteology by B. Miles Gilbert. They will help you identify almost any bone in birds or mammals.

One note on the Golden Guides: Birds of North America is that it is one of the only books separated by orders. In Field Pack 3.4 this is essential to complete the task of journaling all of the bird orders. Since this is a one-time task you can certainly get this from the library instead of purchasing it. The biology textbook fits this category as well. You can save yourself some money on getting this from the library or a half-price bookstore.