like the water quality testing and how do you tell if the lake is healthy  tell you what you are going to be doing today and ways you can really make today's activities excessive all those teams are all here represented in the circle we have the beautiful space so just for a moment take a deep breath close your eyes and imagine yourself being in this place hundreds of years ago you're standing on an island now hundreds of years yes we can use old maps and imaginations paintings photos and field trips to get an idea of what the land the water the plants and animals and the  moved to reservations along the minnesota river during that occurred at present in the eighteen succes many dakota indians were imprisoned and executed people died of starvation or were first to move out of the state to the city planners couldn't foresee some of the problems that some people don't it is their land for this cause many people didn't want to give up the rest of their property so the city and the county eventually had to buy or condemn the rest of the land on an island with the people who live to be frail travel who through here and they travel lightly on the road in the land they took care of our resources and when they left this place they left it in good shape we container we're going to fill up the container with some temperature and what was this test over here ph and what was this test back here we're going to call that oh and was this test a shirt that translates the centimeters centimeters were thirty three thirty three thirty three and thirty seven average averages to about thirty five so here we are thirty four to thirty six point eight i'm trying to be values night so row ten and lose it's pretty healthy fish start to show signs of stress reduced growth rate so the higher the tributed in terms of healthy rather than a slog film city and try to rewrite that oh so this for us same thing for the animals in the water ok they were they were threatened we didn't have many we did a lot of measures to increase the population obese and really we're now we're kind of saddled with having too many geese so anyway this is really good habitat  provide much habitat for for songbirds another issue or two to slow that water down so for instance if the park's people fertilize some of that runs off straight down here and right into the water so that's an issue is that they get that so that turf doesn't really slow down that water all that much native plants do a great job in doing that so that's kind of one of the benefits of doing these picnic tables here this is set up as a part ok so what do you do in the park you come here you know you played frisbee baseball whatever right you want a big open area for that so turf grass is perfect for that all right but we need to kind of balance that out too much of it having it right to the water's edge isn't that great great great thing to ha all right so we have to balance that we need understanding that this is a park we need some tough grass but yet we kind of got to balance it out and say let's let's do a combo platter where we have bought for the filter the water we have habitat these baskets filled with rocks and then covered on so the rocks wouldn't disappear so there's a lot of activity this is a park that's right we have a minute why or why would they put their the shoreline you could think of it as kind of artificial it didn't have the native plants that are supposed to have remember we said we want to take out our hands dirty we have plenty of native plants pointing downwards because i want to make sure the loose and they're able to get into the ground data who have come and volunteered today to plant the shrubs i think there's a couple of really good things are happening but overall benefit i think is going to be you know just restoring  native plants and shrubs there's going to be prey grass planted along the shoreline and and that does a lot for the ecosystem for the rock itself the water