Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Day 1,2 and 3

I have never really done a blog so excuse my lack of originality. But these first three days have been awesome! We didn't leave the Yakama Reservation until about 11 on Monday! But we got to see some petroglyphs and went to Horse-thief National Park. And the second day I got up at 5:26 and went for a run, and on the way back I actually got to see the sun rise. And it was a beautiful image. By later that day we went to meet up with some people from Fish and Wildlife. Their names were Jason Grant and Austin Smith. Jason worked with the stream restoration and Austin worked as a wildlife technician. They basically told us what their jobs were and what they do. Jason work was restoring and moving the streams to were Salmon would come back the streams from were they were born. Austin worked tracking Mule Deer, and their declining population due to horse invasion. He basically told us that the horses ate all the same plants that the Mule Deer eat. Austin would go out on weekly flights and see if any of his tagged deer would be in unusual places. And after that went to a flood plane with a flood plane. He was gonna try to remove some burms/dikes and make the stream a better and safer place for the salmon to go up and downstream. After we got done meeting with them we made dinner. We also came up with a cool nickname for the suburban we are riding in, we called ourselves "The Bandwagon". Because everybody riding in the suburban is in band. After dinner we played a game called "Werewolf" it was pretty fun. Then went to sleep. So that basically sums these first three days.

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