People of the big river 2025

 Day twelve: Today I woke up feeling way better than I did yesterday. But I have to take it slow the Doctor said, which I did not like because I do not like to sit around and do nothing. While everybody else is working, but I had no choice. Today we went to a plant nursery and help them with trimming there trees and moved them so they can collect better sun light. We did that for couple of hours, but I to just sit there and watch which was terrible because I wanted to help. After that we went to the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla and met with Andrew Wildbill who is a tribal member. He gave us an introduction to the natural resources program that they have there. he spoke for with us for an hour or so then we had some lunch and talked for a little longer. Then we made our way to the Burrowing Owl Conservation on the former Umatilla Chemical Depot, we met up with Solai Le Fay, who is from Ashland, Oregon. She is a graduate student from Boise State working on her masters in rapto...

 Day eleven: Today is our travel day, we have a ten hours drive ahead of us. I woke not feeling so good, and of all days it had to be on our travel day. I woke up feeling nauseous, and had a headache, I could not eat anything. I was not feeling my best, but we departed crane prairie at 8:00 AM and made our ten hour trip to Pendleton. We stopped at a few places and had our lunch, but I could not eat anything at all. I just slept most of the trip, I felt a little better for a while but that didn't last long. After we got to our camp site to set up, I still was not feeling good. So I had to be driven to the hospital to get an IV, turns out I had heat exhaustion, the IV helped and I was able to recover and felt better. Then when I got back I just went to bed to rest it off.    

 Day ten: Today I woke up at 6:00 AM, I had some breakfast as usual and packed my lunch. Today we will be doing some field work, and help the forest service with restoring some of the beaver dam projects they have been working on. Like what we helped with at Swamp creek around the Mount Adams area on the Yakama reservation. It should be very fun, I am looking forward to it, I like working on stuff like that. We departed camp at 7:30, and went to the Deschutes national forest offices in the city of Sister. We met with some program managers and botanists. The first person was Alex Enna, program manager for various programs in the area he also has a masters degree in forestry from Colorado state, next was Liz Day, district manager, she got her wildlife major from the University of Delaware. The next person was Christine Meyers, Partnership coordinator for the Deschutes national forest she has a degree in forestry but now is in botany. We went to an area called lower black butte swamp ...

 Day nine: Today I woke up at 6:00 AM, and helped get breakfast prepared. Then I packed my lunch, we departed at 7:30, and took a two hour drive, to sand springs. We met up with Marlow Fisher, she is a Botanist for the U.S forest service at the Deschutes national forest. She has been there for over 15 years, she is very experienced at her job. She grew up in Northwest Indiana near Chicago, and around the Smokey mountains area. She went to the University of Indiana and Oregon state. Her job is working on the restoration of the forest, and helps make eco systems better. Right now she is working the rare plant survey, the plant is called pumice moonwart fern. That is what we will be helping her with. We met up with her, at around 9:30, and went to Sand Springs, the place is a desert like area to look for the pumice moonwart fern. The area was dry and it was pretty warm. Our job was to make a grid pattern and flag all of the pumice moonwarts that we find. It turned out to be a lot of f...

 Day eight: Today I woke up at 7:00 AM, today is another science day. I had some breakfast, I didn't have to pack a lunch because we will be staying at camp to have our science day. We started off with incubating some of our water samples, so we can see if any bacteria is in the water where we have collected them. Next we took some of our other water samples that we have already incubated, which had some bacteria growth on them we did that for a couple of hours. Next we got everything prepared for the next steps of our lab work, then we took our lunch break for about an hour. Then after our lunch break, we began to gram stain our samples so we can look at the bacteria under the microscope. I really enjoy the process of the gram staining the bacteria, it us about an hour to get all our samples ready. Then we began to look at them under the microscope. This was very interesting because we all got a lot of really good samples of bacteria, then we identified them and wrote them down in...

 Day seven: Today I woke up at 7:00 AM, and had some breakfast and packed my lunch. Because today is our travel day, we have a long travel day ahead of us. We will be traveling from Wellpinit to Crane Prairie lake in the Deschutes national forest in Oregon. I am looking forward to this, because I never been there and I heard it is very beautiful. We departed Wellpinit just after 8:00, we drove though the Tri-Cities area to get to Oregon it took about three hours to get there from Wellpinit. But of course as soon as we got to Oregon it started raining, which was not a surprise. We drove for about another hour and stopped at a rest area and had some, and I made a phone call to my family. Which was nice, because I haven't talked to them since I left for my trip, and they were happy to hear from me. We had lunch for about 45 minutes, and got back on the road, and set off for our destination, we still had a long ways ahead of us. We arrived at Crane Prairie just after 5:30, the trip too...