July 17,2019 Alex took us to Klamath fisheries and water laboratory where he talked about the dams and how they want to get rid of them so some of the fish can come up stream. He also mentioned that the lost river sucker and the short nose sucker is endangered. The oldest fish they have found was about 50 years old (lost river sucker) and for the short nose sucker was about 30 years old, you can tell how old the fish are by looking at their scale under a microscope and it has little rings (like a tree) that you can count and it’ll tell you. The short nose sucker fish can live up to 33 years old and get 35 inches long. Females produce about 44,000 to 218,000 eggs. Adults deposit eggs in gravel bottoms. Most of the fish know where they spawn so every year they go back to lay eggs. Jeff Mitchell arrived at our camp in the evening. He welcomed us with a song. After which he began sharing a little bit about how the sucker fish were made and why they stopped harvesting them and why
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July 16, 2019 Today was a traveling day so we woke up about 5:15 am and it took me awhile to get out of my tent. But the car ride was fun we went to Crater Lake and it was so beautiful the hike got me a little tired but it was worth it. Once you get to the top it is so peaceful and you could just see the whole thing and it was the best view ever. Once we arrived at Collier State Park, Alex Gonyaw arrived and he took us to a little stream that had otters and is spring fed. He talked a little bit about aspen trees and he also mentioned that they do not spread seeds. They are one organism that spreads and makes more aspen trees grow.
July 15, 2015 We met Tom Walker and Trent they took us to save the native plants by pulling out the non-native plants at a marsh pit by putting waders on and pulling out the weeds. It was really gross at first but after awhile I got used of it and it was a really great experience, my foot got stuck in the mud and I almost fell into the pond and it was scary because I had my phone in my pocket. Luckily it didn’t get wet and we were all safe. Except for some of the students fell in. After lunch we went with Pete Powers to go save the Aspen trees, when we first arrived I wasn’t ready but once we started working it was really fun, I fell down a couple times but it was cool, we got to help the Aspen trees grow by cutting the other plants around it. We took a little break and went tree riding with Grayson Mesplie.
July 13, 2019 Today was a easy day, I finally got to sleep in and it felt good, but I still woke up around 7:10AM and we had a really good breakfast ( bacon, hash browns, oatmeal with brown sugar, blueberries, bananas, and honey if you wanted) After breakfast we edited our blogs a little bit then went to go set up our trail cameras. Then we got to little lava lake and it was really fun except for the fact I almost died because I cant swim I can only float because if I can’t touch the ground I freak out but it was still fun to learn the hard way.
July 12,2019 My day at lava lands was pretty fun, we went to the lava flow trail. At first it seemed like it was really long but when we were done and got to the top it didn’t seem that long. But there was little hill that got me tired :o but besides all of the views were really pretty, and when we were done with the trails we went to the top of the volcano and went on a new trail. the path that wasn’t there last year but it was cool cause you could see all of the flow from the volcano it all was very pretty and calming.
July 10, 2019 ( TUESDAY) HELLO, MY NAME US PRISCILLA WILLIAMS, I GO TO WHITE SWAN HIGH SCHOOL, I AM GOING INTO MY SENIOR YEAR. TODAY IS MY FIRST DAY OF BRING WITH "PEOPLE OF THE BIG RIVER" TODAY WE WOKE UP PRETTY EARLY, WE WOKE UP AT 6:00am. AMELIA AND I DIDN'T GET MUCH SLEEP BECAUSE WE ARRIVED AT CAMP WITH THE OTHER STUDENTS AROUND 1:00AM. AND JESSICA HAD ALREADY SET OUR TENT UP FOR AMELIA AND I SO WE HAD TO GET OUR BAGS AND PUT THEM IN THE TENT. AT 7:30- 8:00AM. WE WENT TO THE WARM SPRINGS FIRE MANAGEMENT AND THERE WE MET A GUY NAMED BRAD DONAHUE, HE WAS IN CHARGE OF FUELS, PROJECTS ON AND OFF THE RESERVATION, HE ALSO MENTIONED THAT THEY ARE THE #2 COMPLEXITY IN THE U.S. THE FIRE MANAGEMENT HAS A 20 PERSON HOT SHOT CREW (THEY WERE IN ANCHORAGE, ALASKA FIGHTING FIRE). THEY ALSO HAS A 20 PERSON ENGINE CREW. BRAD STARTED FIREFIGHTING AT THE AGE OF 16, HE DIDN'T GO ON HIS FIRST FIRE UNTIL HE WAS 18 YEARS OLD. HIS LONGEST SHIFT WAS 46 HOURS IN 1996. B