2022 People of the Big River Field Class

It's the final post Daylily conveniences or somewhat being more relied than most I'm not going to lie to you I miss the time I could just go to the kitchen and get clean water now we just don't need to waste any bit of water because we are on limit water we could use but I also learned that sometimes you need to be uncomfortable to do a job in environmental science or to be uncomfortable to get a new experience and a different field I learned that every single place has community every single place is trying to change something any organization can't be an organization without a goal a place won't be a place to live unless there is people that like to take care of it or living beings that will take care of the area. Because the smallest animal will help out a large range of horses shown repeatedly through history how volcanoes erupt and animals slowly recover the forest by eating plants or seeds and later pooping them out and regrowing the forest. but as people, we

The second to last day they live in this one, I'm in particular I liked the most we went to the obsidian Lake. If I remember perfectly practically a whole Mountain full of obsidian it was fun and quite dangerous well, to be honest with you I feel as if I was one step away from stepping on a sharp obsidian rock. It'll possibly cut through my shoe and stab my foot that's how I felt it didn't resort to that super beautiful. So, many points where is beautiful landscapes to take photos I hopefully did remember to take some photos. If I did I will be posting it down here and on the blog after this section. I still have slightly of a limp since yesterday.  I could power through it not the worst thing but afterward, we head to a wonderful Museum. I would say zoo depending on who you talk to first things first I went through the Native American section of the museum and took in a lot of photos of the gear and equipment. The bags and clothing of Native Americans and how there wer

 Day 10                Well, I had a stormy night of sleep because of the thunderstorm and the fact that I need to go pee quite often. All aside we went to a lava tube cave in other words a cave that was made of lava. The entrance of the cave had ice at the beginning of the cave It was a long walk through the lava tube. The deeper you go the colder it got we had to crawl our way through one part when traveling with the ground your sense of time is distorted and your sense of diction felt weird.  But we got through it all and I spent a small time in the lava pool lookout museum and went up to the mountain. I looked down at the mountain filled with lava but now it’s filled with rock. You could see how the lava took over the area when it was released into the wild, but I had to stay in the van because my ankle was in pain, so I did not want to father injure it. When we got to camp, we had breakfast for dinner and talked. I when to my camp to try to blog but I felt a bad headache, so

 Day 9                The strange thing is that I wake up late. Not really, I wake up at the same time as the other. I know that it's ok but it’s strange to me that it happened. But I felt bad that I did not help to begin with. I do like helping because things get done with hard work. I do believe that hard workers get awarded in the end.      The day was normal for as normal as it could be we when to meet up with the three workers we are going to help with. but before we got to them, I had a small nap in the car and woke up to a desert out the window so let’s play a game about how did I act at this moment. A) nothing B) when back to sleep D) tried to understand what happened. (Ding ding ding it was D) I just woke up but that aside we helped in looking for rare plants in the area.                We meet the three that we are going to help Marlo Fisher the botanies, Antey’s Lundazi, and serai Ganbin we help them with the service help by looking for a plant that had a long and ha

Day 8 was the day we had to pack up our things from Camp to move to the next one and I missed the open Camp compared to the newest one. The new campsite was within the Woods and it gets really dark quickly but the weather is just very cold. So, we just have to have to layer some extra clothes on ourselves. That's not much of a hassle in my opinion.     I had a very bad day of bladder problems, I literally wanted to go to the bathroom almost every second of the day I don't know why it happened. But it took us a while to get to the new camp it was a pretty peaceful site to see not much of a problem at all the only thing I could complain about it is the bathroom those cartoons type typical ones that you'll see in a cartoon it just needed a crescent moon there but what are you going to do. At least you have a place to go to the bathroom, but still, there was a whole bunch of mosquitoes near it could the lake whatever you can call Creek near the entrance of the camp.  I had my o

Rinse and repeat like usual get up early in the morning clean up the campsite get ready for breakfast eat breakfast and prepare for lunch for later in the day today we went to see the fish hatchery with the kalispel tribe the caretaker of the fish hatcheries were very nice people and they showed us around there looking at the different sizes. Different features of each fish type. But we kind of were in the Splash Zone when they threw the fish food in there the pellets went flying everywhere in the tank but the fish proceeded to jump out of the water and splash it's always nice to see a whole colony of fish just swimming around with no worries on what could happen to themselves surprisingly they mowed the grass before we actually got there so I was impressed that everything was neatly cut.  But later in the day, we went to the nearby River for everyone to swim, but I forgot to bring my own swimming. So, I just waited in the dry land but I did catch up on some news that day later on

As usual, we woke up in the morning and got everything ready. I cleaned my tent. After all, it gets filled with blades of grass when I walk around because a little bit of water eventually covers up your whole shoe or sandals. Drags a whole bunch of grass here tent yes the small inconveniences but I woke up quite really early and it feels good we're going to put it early with a comfortable amount of sun warming you up while you're looking into the sunset that feels nice I can't tell you how much I liked it how much I wanted to try to draw or paint the place I didn't have time to do it or the right type of media I wanted to do it.  But we have been visited by one of the park rangers if I'm wrong I'm sorry but he is one of the people that help run the place we're staying and his name is Ray Entiz he gave us a tour around me walk in the trail in the forest nearby our camp the main jobs were to do surveys changing the behavior of jaguars through sounds like a few

We started off normally and we all went to the bathroom or to shower with the essential things. out of mind and all that we did was set up breakfast and lunch bags ready. So, we can have that ready but it did take us quite a while to pack everything up from the camp and have the trailer ready to leave. We had to unhook things and put things away and throw what is not necessary away. I had to pack up my stuff early in the morning and set away my supplies into the truck so we could leave or was it a van? Anyway, we did take a while to travel to the new camp place.  It was pretty easy to get there and it was a beautiful sight it was pretty open we didn't have to struggle to walk anywhere it was pretty even ground. You could see a lake that was man-made. It was located a little bit higher on the hill and a river or creek was right next to the place where we were camping. That probably did make the mosquito problem later in the day. But it may come from the creek or the tree nursery was

    We proceeded by collecting the waters that have been incubated for fungus and bacteria looking in the datasheet. What could happen the further days of incubation and the further the colonies slowly grow the first sample was some tap water that was found in our local fountains. Then we checked on the creek water we got from the last day's adventures and the woods with the firefighters. We compared the two samples after the machine was slowly growing the colonies within it. There weren't that many visible changes except small spots and coloration in the cell dishes. There were four colonies in one.      I was expecting then I made a good idea on trying to make a movie night. We managed to convince everyone to watch movie night and we watched "Antlers" yeah probably was a bad idea trying to watch a horror movie in the woods. While heard animals Running about around us there was a dog that looked like it was a mixture of a pitbull and a German Shepherd.     I'm pr

Wake up earlier this day I just walked around the area just for a little exercise. Because lately, I've been just sitting down more than anything else trying to get the blood flowing as usual. Everyone started waking up. I proceeded to help them out and got what we needed and our Lunch is ready to go We head to firefighters' stations in the area the Spokane firefighters may control the forest fires or make control forest fires mostly to control the spread of disease between plants and trees. Also, do animal control if possible but at times there are some people that will cost more tree destruction whenever they find a valuable tree species. For every tree, cut need to plant five or 15 tree saplings nearby within a square mile people have to have permission to cut the trees and have permission in certain areas. To be able to cut wood the companies can't just cut down trees whenever they want before we went back to camp. We head by a creek that was nearby the highway through

Last night I didn't really get that much sleep because of a large rainstorm happening honestly I thought It was going to overflow my tent. For some reason because the water was dropping into the tent but it was just condensation going through the tent it wasn't the water. But later in the morning I woke up to take a shower and proceeded to try to get ready for the day. Packed up everything and cleaned up my tent as everyone started waking up, I tried to offer to help out set up for breakfast and we had that we talked to her on how what we're going to do today. We were going to go to a fish hatchery focusing on trying to bring back the salmon to Spokane, it's nice to see people trying to bring back animals that used to flourish in Spokane we went to the egg Hatchery and we met three people. Tom Peone - fish Hatchery manager Casey Fannigan- water fish project manager Calvin Fisher- a water resource specialist fish biologist  The main goal of the fish hatchery was to help

     On the first day, I woke up pretty early I had to the campus to try to help out and get to know my companions throughout the trip. We got everything organized and packed and everything Essentials for every single person had their own tent laundry bag some notes and notebooks to document things I carried my regular backpack and a duffel bag with me and the first day yes I was a little paranoid at someone might steal my stuff what are you going to do its natural instinct.      Anyways we went off towards our destination I don't know where because most of the time I don't even know what day it is I just live through the flow at the moment and that's why I tend to have very bad habits or not taking pictures and documenting the environments I was in but I have a very good memory on the sites I experienced we went through a lot of grassy Hills and Farms I really love the Farms because it was a good mixture of yellow and green making it look like a tall grass Hills the ones