July 27, 2013

Today we were all woken up early!! errr!! but we had some pancakes and sausages which were amaze balls so i didn't mind too much. Once we finished our breakfast we had to unload everything and do inventory and that was a blip in our time home but it was great when we finished. We had everything, even though i never found my wallet. Sadface. But i also cleaned our car with help from chance so our car is now clean!! and i slept most of the ride and had a pretty random dream, then we came to the Dry Falls and looked around and had lunch so it was alright, and watched a video that i didn't really pay attention to but i braided arianna's hair so yeah, and now im logging and tryna get home.. so im done!

July 26, 2013

Today in Nespelem, Colville we woke up at 7 i believe and got ready and met with and elder at 9 am. The elders name was Barbara Aripa and she talked covered many different things like she talked about how the earth belongs to us and we must take of care of all the natural things on the land because the land takes care of us and mother nature is our land. Barb would trail off into many different topics but another one was she talked about how in 1998 she was apart of a environmental project in Hanford and it was about how wind cycles through and can carry radio active particles and radiation which can cause cancer but not right away because as you know it takes 20 years to develop, so she talking about how when wind flows it can pick up radio active particles and when it flows it can bounce off the mountains and just cycles through so that is where the particles can travel and can hit people. Then she talked about how people would take more than needed like picking too much berries or taking too much salmon and how that can mess up the natural cycle of how or earth works because everything has a purpose and when that is messed up then it can effect the wildlife around it. Well now i am going to talk about when we met Rick Desautal, first he took us to the Fish Farm with Pacific Aquaculture and we got to go on a boat and look at trout, they had big trout and little trout, i got to feed the little trout. I didn't really listen to what he was saying or really take notes but i did enjoy looking at the trout especially the pretty blue ones and that is all i have to say about the fish stop. When we got back we had lunch and chilled for awhile and then we had got called down to the gym and Rick had brought some animal furs and a few skulls of the animals to compare and contrast, and we got to touch the furs and then we sat down as he talked about the animals and what they are, what they do and how they are different from other animals or overpower other animals. My personal favorite is the Black Bear because well my name is bear, anyway he talked about how bears are very smart and how bears do not hibernate they just sleep for a long time, other bears hibernate and are deep asleep but black bears just sleep for a long time, if you try bother a bear in hibernation you wont wake it up but if you bother a black bear it'll wake up. After he was done talking i started playing basketball with Eric, Chance, Terran and some other guy it was fun and then i helped setup chairs for a funeral then i kinda just chilled. The heritage students had finally awoken from their beautiful nap and started to get ready to prepare dinner and i got in the shower and took a very short shower and had eating a sloppy joe then we headed out to this site with rick and he talked to us about what we were going to be doing when we were howling at wolves. Then we headed up to a certain area and howled at the wolves in hopes that they would communicate back but sadly they did not. It was nice though, just the view was beautiful alone. When we all howled it made think of the movie stomp the yard, and the ride back.. oh my lanta i was wiped out! but when we got back i had macoroni and cheese and i passed out! that is all for yesterday.

July 25, 2013

This morning i was very very tired and had cereal who my friend got me and i very much appreciated that, i enjoyed our morning shower today although sweating for fossils later on didn't really help much. After the showers we sat around in the gym and caught up on our blogs. Once we had fiished our blogs we headed back headquarters to pack up and leave, we left maybe around 12 or 11 and headed to where i am right now, Colville but we stopped at the fossil area and i found one that was pine needle and some mineral thing. I think today was chill, we had pizza at this amaze balls pizza place nearby and watched the laser show at the Grand Coulee Dam which was very amazing although some of it was unnecessary and just patriotic but i bet that was point intended to use propaganda. i hoped to do my laundry but i guess not, oh wells just a day and half to go anyway so i think i shall be good. today was more of a driving day so not much i can into detail about and i will say that Wellpinit has a very nice school for a small reservation. And i had taken plenty handouts from the Grand Coulee Dam so yay stuff for my poster! and right now it is 12:17 so i am tired ad that is all thank you and goodnight.

July 24, 2013

Today we are at the Spokane tribe in Wellpinit and are staying on the tribes fairgrounds i believe, it is nice during the day but trust me at night it is very creepy and i can not go bathroom alone when it is dark. Early this morning we met many different people and not just adults or elders, there were youth as well. I don't quite remember all of their of names but i do remember everything we have done today. After meeting the people and getting to know them a little we had followed them out to the area where they track different wildlife using steel plates and and bate, i thought it was cool that they could track many different wildlife like wolves, bears, short and long weasletail etc.. Then after learning about tracking we followed them to the falls area and ate lunch then shocked fish and caught them, it was very fun although i got shocked in the butt because i was in the water and it felt very tingly. I caught i think 4 or 3 fish, and i was very proud of myself. After catching fish and releasing them we went back to the grounds and chilled for awhile but we went to the trading post and got drinks and snacks and such, most of the heritage girls had gotten aqua shoes, only 8 buck i believe or 7! Which helped i bet when we went swimming at the docks. When we were at the docks the water was a litter full of dirt but felt very good, warmer at the top and got colder towards the bottom, me and a few other students had swam out further than we should of and got a good story afterwards though so it wasn't all that bad. When each elder had spoke, i know i would remember it and i do hope i get to teach my childrens childrens children the same thing and so on. That sunset we watched was so beautiful i can still picture it. My tummy honestly had hurt the since lunch though but didn't really hold me back so i enjoyed today and will remember what my elders had to say.

July 23, 2013

Today was a nice hang back sort of day, we painted finally and chilled back in the shade while we did that, i forgot t mention playing volleyball yesterday was very fun as well. Today was a very bad day for me, my head hurt, my stomach hurt and my throat hurt, i felt bad for being sick because i did not want to intrude on the trip. But it didn't stop us in much of a way so i think its all good. My favorite part of today was when i got to see one my older brothers whom i have not seen in maybe 3-5 years, i have 6 brothers who live in this in area, seeing just the one made me entirely happy, i was sad i had to leave because i enjoyed catching up with him and i was nearly tearing up leaving. I thought it was pretty crazy to see him considering he is staying at the same place i stayed for one night. i have not blogged much on this day but its all i want to blog about at this moment.

July 22, 2013 

Today was a crazy day, 4 t tires lost in one, that's how i will always remember this day. Today we are on the  Umatilla tribe or i see it as Pendleton, we went to the Umatilla National Governance and met Wenix a very nice kind lady who taught us about the land and how they only have certain amount of coverage of land where they can get food and on and off the reservation she also talked about the ways of the tribe and how they do things to gather food and get all of the groups of food they need. I honestly wasn't really in there when she was talking so i missed a lot  more than i should of and i was listening to her but i didn't get very much information in my notebook so it's kind of hard to get every good detail needed. i may not have much information on we had learned but today is a day to blog about! On our way to the grounds by the river we had lost two tires, one on the flaming eagle and one on the band wagon and on our way back we had lost two more tires both on the war pony. Even in the bad turn of events we end up saying in Wenix's backyard which was very beautiful, the only bad thing for me on this day for me is when i got sick twice in one night. But it wasn't all that bad, i was getting very well taken care of thanks to everybody. And people were up late having fun, i thought that was nice, even though they were all pretty tired they had fun. We had indian tacos for dinner which was amaze balls. i really enjoyed today even in the turn of events, it was nice. That is about it for me today.. oh and learned how to play stick games!

July 21, 2013

Today we had to get up early as usual but we had pancakes so i didn't mind too much but that was when i stated to notice i was getting sick but i thought nothing of it so i didn't mind too much. After breakfast we went to Joseph Fisheries and learned about the project they were doing at the moment, they're doing more than one i believe three but this was the more important project. We met many people but honestly wasn't really paying attention at the moment, still was feeling very sick. But when we went the office for the fisheries i read the poster and took notes on the poster that was in front by the door. It had the title of project, the methods and results which helped me better understand the project that i wasn't really listening in on. So I'm glad i came across the poster, for the methods it talked about hatchery Chinook salmon are trapped at the Lostine weir, located 1km above the river mouth and confluence with Wallowa river. Inserted lotek model MCFT-3A radio transmitters into 55 female, male and jack salmon, release salmon continue upstream migration. Fixed site telemetry monitoring stations and global water level loggers were deployed at Clearwater  and Sheep ridge and Caudle lane bridge to document fish passage through time of day and with KWM current flows. Mobile tracking was conducted weekly- vehicle and by foot and is used to detect radio tagged salmon between and above fixed sites to establish "final fate" locations on tagged fish. Detections determined passage and calculated elapsed passage time/delay at fixed sites, passage attempts. travel time, and rate of travel through reaches total travel and final locations. Results were Clearwater and Sheep ridge were nit barriers to migration salmon during flows experienced by fish in 2008. Fish went above over during flows as low as 28cfs at Clearwater and as low as 36cfs at Sheep ridge. Most fish (86%) went above over first structures on first attempt. More males than females during migration and more. We also went to Chief Josephs cemetery and talked about glaciers. Once we were done with that we went swimming which honestly felt amazing and just nice, even getting rocks was fun. I believe that is all.

July 20, 2013

Today we left on our way to Joseph and stopped at the painted hills, which was very awesome. We collected scientific research for our litle project we'd do making paint, today wasn't a day where we did a lot but the ride was still nice. Mostly listened to music on the car, jammin that country and singing along, then toward the end of the ride we started talking about movies which i thought was very random because we weren't even talking about that to begin with we just trailed off topic. Well we also slept most of the ride, or well i did anyway and it felt good yet uncomfortable and i haven't been really looking out the window so not much for seeing anything. When we finally got to Joseph at the powwow it was small but very nice because i was watching the fancy dancers who i thought were amazing and especially the two favorites i had. Also Monet bought me a green apple smoothie which made me happy and the stand where we got the smoothie i met a tattoo artist and i got his contact info, as well as many other contact info, by the time we got there a lot of the stands were closed so i only one but that one was pretty cool because it had animal bones and skins and a big buffalo head that i thought looked very awesome and i accidentally fell asleep in the van but i ddn't mind too much on that and that is it for the 20th.

July 18, 2013

Continuing last blog...So after we went up even more to meet Stewart we went on the pathway and met three more people. Shane Jeffries, Wildlife biologist, Kevin Larkin, district ranger and Amy Tinderholt, recreation team leader. They all talked each one of us about they got where they were and what they do and they showed us the falls which i thought looked very amazing. Amy talked to me about internships and jobs they're trying setup for people under 18 which is cool to me because i would love to work a season with the bats. And that is kind of it for the 18th.

Calista Spoonhunter

July 18^th Part Two

Well I don’t really remember where I left off on part one, I’m typing this with no internet, so I’m going to do the best I can to do this in the correct order, or at least where I left off so I don’t throw you guys off. Well I believe I left off with talking about being under the highway and talking about the cave a little bit?.. Well I think I shall just start with talking about what we did after we were done looking at the caves and where we went. After we had left the caves we went to another volcanic sight and met Erin Woodard, who is an archeologist for the program. Erin was someone I found interesting personally, she went to the university I want to go to, she has been going to school for many years to be an archeologist and has done a lot of work to do something she loves, so she wasn’t necessarily even doing work, she was doing something she loved and found interesting which is why I find her interesting personally because I think everyone should have the jib that makes them happy. Erin showed us a replica of an arrowhead that is made of obsidian and she told us how she had to ensure that real artifacts like what sh found stay left alone and untouched for future generations to enjoy or discover so they can see what that past generations had lived with and what the volcano can make when erupted. Then we had gone uphill to get talked to by Doug Johnson who works within the fire management department and firefights as well. Doug talked about what causes the fires and how many fires happen each year. There are 140 fires per year and 50% of those fires are man caused, that was all I got from Doug. Then we went upstairs and met Stewart who is a fire monitor... ahhh to be continued once again! too tired for this. 

Calista Spoohunter

July 19, 2013

Well I didn’t get to quite finish my blog from yesterday and I’m really tired and lazy to do that right now so I’m going to just talk about what we did today. Today we were again in the Deschutes Forest, but this time we did a lot more hands on work. We made like little drain paths a long the pathway for when it rains. I personally enjoyed axing a big root or whatever it was, I think because I am still very mad that my wallet is lost.. I’m hoping it’s just misplaced! Well today we also went and removed fire rings from the grounds and that was some work, especially when we had to carry the heavy bags filled with dirt and rocks! But it was it great work out, but when we eat I’m more or likely going to gain it all back. I felt good knowing I was helping in a way to help the forest and the forest rangers, and helping remove those fire rings also was nice because that will help prevent the fires. We stopped at the Blue Lagoon for lunch and a swim which was very scenic because the water looked very beautiful, it was bluish green and it was cold yet very refreshing. The walk there and back was where I felt the most work out, the trail way is ½ a mile so there and a back was a mile and heading back was I felt it most because I walked straight with no stops! But it felt great, then for dinner the heritage team made tacos so I believe I gained the weight I lost back! I’m disappointed in myself for that but I aint even trippin so it’s all good. Today was honestly a work day, shoveling, axing, sawing, lifting and walking.. oh and swimming! Today made me feel very good, although I wasn’t feeling too well towards the end of my night, I just wanted to sleep and be left alone after awhile. I really enjoyed today and hope tomorrow is a relax sort of day because I need to rest, I haven’t had a good sleep since maybe the last day of school to June 18^th and I probably won’t get to, tomorrow we’re are supposed to go check some painted hills and the Nez Perce powwow which seems like a very chill day. I think today made me feel at home, doing work outdoors made me feel like I was doing yard work at home and it’s a great feeling to feel as if I’m home. When we did the fire rings I started to get really tired and just wanted to crash hard on my nice bed at home! I don’t have very much to blog today but I shall finish my blog to July 18^th right after I finish up this blog so be on the look out for “July  18^th Part Two” well that all I have.

July 18, 2013

Today was honestly my favorite day so far, the past few days I just wasn't feeling it. Although i loved the horses! But today was by far the best learning for me, i actually took a lot of notes. Most of this day we were at the Deschutes National Forest which is 1.6 million acres, also met I think 10 different people, who I found very interesting and nice. The introducing person for the day was Scott McBride, i think that is how you would spell his last name, we didn't get to hear a lot from him. After we met Scott we broke into two groups, Heritage students and white swan students. I was in the white swan group, and we were being talked to by Barbara Webb, she is a wildlife biologists. Barbara talked about the lava nature and how it is a great bat habitat, then she went into talking about the bats. The bats at the caves we were at are insect eaters, and they eat a lot of insects before they go into hibernation, bats are also starting to decrease in population due to the whitenose syndrome, which they believe was brought by the European travelers when going through bat caves. What whitenose syndrome is like a fungus which causes the bats to itch, when they're hibernating and can bother them to where they are going to starve to death, which is how they would die. Bats in Europe may be resistant to the disease because it is where they're from and bats from the U.S and Canada would not be so resistant because it is new to the bats. A big question is "how do we provide opportunities to people to be able to see bats and keep the bats safe?". 

After barbara was done talking we met Bart Wills who showed us the cave, he is the geologists for the forest, Bart  told us how the flow of lava formed the lava tubes and when it stopped and erupted and formed the caves. The cave was 1 mile long give or take, under the highway crosing US 97, it was 31 ft high and 50 ft thick.

To Be Continued....

um.. i don't know how to blog so here it goes. July 15, 2013 we left the heritage university, I think our first stop was at Celilo fall where we looked over at the water and learned about how many different falls fell. Also how it took out 9/10 of the people who live near the falls, but to this day they still have powwows to celebrate in memory of the falls and the salmon the fell with it. Then our next stop was at i think Satus Pass where we looked at petroglyphs that were carved or drawn by the past tribes of the area, some of these petroglyphs had meanings and others were what the tribes saw. i thought it was cool to see things in way past tribes have seen. on July 16, 2013 we checked out the stream restoration and met Jason Grant and Austin Smith. I learned about the environment works in many different ways to help the wildlife and messing with the natural resources can kill that wildlife. We also made tiny little rope out of some plant, i can't quite remember the name, but learned how to make rope the way the past tribes made rope. Today on July 17, 2013 we went horseback riding and that just made my day. We also went to the museum of Warm Springs and watched a video about the past ways of Warm springs, but got a little treat from the lady who led us on the trail. She told us a story about what had happened to her, and the point led up to showing how the cultural spiritual ways are a big part of the native american tribes. And now im at McDonalds blogging to whoever shall read this. OH! try the