Chronicles of MyUMBC: The Mysterious Dogtags
posted over 11 years ago
The hill between the Rock Garden and the tennis courts have them. Pig Pen Pond has them. The fields outside the loop across from Harbor, as well. The library forest and the trees below the cell tower are not left out.
Erik climbed the mountain, looked down and saw a plastic wrapper on the ground. He wasn't the first one to take a walk through these woods. But then his eyes fixed on a bright object in the periphery of his vision. It was another one. Here. Of all places. What could it mean? Who is hanging these up on trees around campus? He would have to look into it another day.
Today is that day.
What are these dog tags? If you've seen them, you know what I'm talking about. There's no explanation given. They're just hung shoulder-height on trees wherever one happens to go. They have numbers engraved on them but it's unclear whether there is a meaning attributable to the numbers themselves, or if it's just the dog tags that are meant to provoke thought.
Is it a silent memorial to dead soldiers? I turn this question to UMBC: help solve the riddle of the Mysterious Dog Tags.
Erik climbed the mountain, looked down and saw a plastic wrapper on the ground. He wasn't the first one to take a walk through these woods. But then his eyes fixed on a bright object in the periphery of his vision. It was another one. Here. Of all places. What could it mean? Who is hanging these up on trees around campus? He would have to look into it another day.
Today is that day.
What are these dog tags? If you've seen them, you know what I'm talking about. There's no explanation given. They're just hung shoulder-height on trees wherever one happens to go. They have numbers engraved on them but it's unclear whether there is a meaning attributable to the numbers themselves, or if it's just the dog tags that are meant to provoke thought.
Is it a silent memorial to dead soldiers? I turn this question to UMBC: help solve the riddle of the Mysterious Dog Tags.
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Guys I'm the copter guy, but the other half of my lab, the tree guys, tag those trees; record their location, diameter, and species. On the surface it is to provide comparison data for the data we capture from the copters, but it is also a bit of a public service to the GES department to catalogue all the trees on campus. If you go to The Knoll (the woods behind the RAC), or Herbert Run (the woods across from Potomac), you will find that those entire forests are tagged. Plus some of the "street trees" around campus. They each have a number so we can keep a huge database of tree information.
