Day thirteen: I woke up today a 7:00 AM. Today is the last full day of the trip and we will be heading tomorrow. The first thing we did was go to the Walla Walla fish hatchery and took a tour of the facility. We met Thomas Tallbull. He is a Hatchery manager there, Thomas graduated from the University of Idaho in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in fish and wildlife, and a master's from the University of Oklahoma in 2021, he was the one giving us the tour. He showed us everything there is that happens at a fish hatchery, from the spawning pools, and where they tag the fish so they can keep track of them. Next he showed us how they separate the natural fish from the tagged fish and he even showed us some lamprey. He said that they release hundreds of thousands of fish each year, I liked the tour it was very interesting. Then after the tour we went back to camp and did some gram staining on the rest of our water samples. We did that for almost two hours, and had some lunch, then we went to the Umatilla agency to one of their conference rooms and looked at our samples, and wrote down our results of those samples. Then we all got interviewed by Melissa Haeffner, she is from Portland state working on a project about our trip and collecting data. We were there for about five hours, and now we are back at Wildhorse taking showers and going back to camp for some dinner and enjoy our last night of the trip. Tomorrow we are heading out early because we have a long trip back home which I am looking forward to seeing my family. 

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