Watershed of Words - Clark County

A Lake of Its Shadow
The water, the water
So polluted
Used to be clean and clear for
all to drink
Trash floats
Toys, bags, and cans
Animals used to come,
Now it’s just a dirty lake
A lake of its shadow
The lake, the lake can be saved
If people work together,
The lake would be saved
But right now,
It’s a shadow
A shadow of that nobody knows
Jethro Abatayo
Pleasant Valley Middle School
6th Grade
Mrs. Taylor
Battle Ground Lake
From tiny bees to bigger trees
The water is here, up to our knees!
Everyone sees that if we just clean
up
Look at the fun there could be!
Look at the lake, lots of fish that are
silver!
Or look at the trees, climbing is as
Fun as fun can be! So do something
Good; clean up as you usually
would please!
Ryan Lynch
Tukes Valley Middle School
6th Grade
Mrs. Bremer
My Creek
My creek is healthy – you can see clear to the bottom. My creek (also
known as Salmon Creek) is on my grandmother’s property! It runs under
the bridge and I don’t know where it ends. There are a lot of animals like
dragon flies, ducks, frogs, fish as big as 6 inches, crawdads, deer, large
bullfrogs. The plants around my creek are cattails, grass, flowers, with lots
of bugs, and night crawlers in the rich soil.
I like to spend time down by the creek. We built a sweat lodge by the
creek. My family is Native American and we enjoy spending time together
by the creek. I have learned a lot about the life around the creek from my
grandmother. She has taught us how to take care of the creek by making
sure no garbage gets in it.
My brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins like to spend time at the
creek. My favorite thing is when we built a rope swing. We put it at the
deepest part where there are no big rocks. It hangs out over the water and
we spend hours playing at the creek. We walk down one side of the creek
as far as we can go and then back up the other side exploring. We skip
rocks across the water. We catch crawdads to study them and see what
they do on land. They move really slowly on land, but in the water they go
really fast. We see raccoons fish in the creek. They caught a big fish and
then ran off into the woods. The deer come down to drink and like us to
bring them treats like apples.
I think everyone would like to spend time at my creek, because it is fun at
my creek. I think you would like to bring a raft to the creek. I can float on
my raft back to where the deer hide and give them an apple. Then I let go
of the rock and float over the big fish. It is so peaceful at my creek.
Colten Phoenix RedThunder
Tukes Valley Middle School
6th Grade
Mrs. Koch
Artwork by
Joseph Henderson
Tukes Valley Middle School
6th Grade
Mrs. Bremer
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