People of the Big River 2025 CAMPING trip

Today we headed out around 7:10 am from the camp ground we are staying at. We headed to. Sisters Ranger Station. to introduce our self to Liz Day, Christine, and Alex. Liz had a slide show she wanted to show us, but the projector did not want to cooperate with her. she ended up doing the slides on her computer, but most important she got some images out to show us since the projector was not working. When the presentation was over we had a 10 minute break so we could use the restroom, or get something from the gift shop. When we finished we headed to the suburban and went to a ware house to collect some waiver since we would be in water again, as soon as we finished getting some waivers we headed to the Lower Swamp Black View Point  to start the project. Todays project was to make some dams, because people started to kill beavers, now the dams are man made into they could get beavers to come back. Liz had told us that the closes beavers where six miles away, but that it would be da...

Today we headed early in the morning to Sand Springs Fort Rock Oregon. We met Marlo she told us that she wanted us to help her look for some rare plant called Pumice Moonwort. Marlo had told us that this plant was rare because in the land she would look for them, her, and her crew would find very little of the plant. we started around 10 and got lunch around 12pm. While we were looking for the plants there was very little that I found. Un till we turned back around clearing a new area is when I started finding some of the plants. The plants where very small maybe around 1 inch tall, but they were so different compared to other plants around them. Soon we realized that we were all running out of flags that we were using to show where the plants we find are at, so Jessica and Marlo looked around and realized that there was some places where we did not flagged the plants so Marlo decided to count the marketed plants than collect the flags to flag the unflagged plants. Than when we were ou...

 Day 8. Today we woke up extremely early🥲. When I walked to the cooking station I realized that the breakfast crew had made scrambled eggs, bacon, and dices potatoes. The bacons where exactly good, I also ended up grabbing a bagel with strawberry spread. After breakfast Jessica and Monet went to do laundry so that we'd have clean clothes for the rest of the week. Today was another science day where we have to transfer bacteria to a little class plate and kill the bacteria to look over them with the microscope 🔬, everything we saw was marked in our black folder to save the data for a later poster assignment. I enjoyed transferring bacteria from different tablets. Around 12:00 we had lunch, today I decided to have a peanut butter jelly sandwich. Soon after Jessica and Monet arrives with our clean clothes and headed to the showers. I did not like the shower today, the reason being is that we have two dollar to get tree minutes of hot water. Unfortunately I did not get hot water and ...

Day 7 was a long day, we woke up around 6 or 6:30 to get our things packed up so we could start heading to Oregon another camp xite where we would stay 2-3 days and get something done. When I woke up I headed to the RV where we had to get our breakfast and our lunches since the ride to Oregon would be around 7-8 hours. When we finished our breakfast and lunches we started putting all our things to the suburban and head away. During the ride we spotted a turkey 🦃. Corban told us that they were wild turkeys. Long away we had to make a stop at a gas station where Corban said that if we wanted snacks that would be the place to get it since the ride would be long. I go my self 2 red bulls a kit Kat and star wares candy, I also got Raquel a candy that I do not remember what it is called. This gas station also had a McDonald's right near to it so I described to go and buy myself something to eat. The food was not like I expected but since I was hungry I just finished it and handed a extr...

Today we woke up and realized we did not have to pack a lunch since we were going to stay at the campground for a science day. So today for breakfast, I had a bagel with strawberry cream cheese (spread). Jessica did teach us about how cow waste can affect the river, and how it could create new bacteria in the water. Talking about bacteria.... Not all bacteria are bad; some can be good for the water source, but some can affect it. After the little lecture, we headed to the RV and started looking at our bacteria that we started growing from the river samples we have been collecting.  At this point, I had finished the science project we were doing, so I asked my classmates if I could take a picture of them, and they said yes. This was the setup of the project that we were doing. The tubes have two sides red and Yellow. The red side has grown harmful bacteria and the yellow side has general growth and pigment. We had to get some bacteria and spread them on the Petri dishes, then put th...

Day 5, today's project was to measure the depth of Wellpinit River. After measuring that, we headed to another place where we had to zap   some fish in the water. The reason for this was to help the red band fishes from being in danger by fishes who are not part of that river, those fishes being Brown trout. This part was fun, yes, I did struggle a bit to move the fishing net around when it was underwater, but it was all worth it at the end because we still caught many little Brown Trout Fish. Once the fish were collected, we got out of the river and watched Jordyn tag two red band fish. These red band fishes are native fishes that have been in danger for a while, but now they are much better than before . Something I have learned is that I want to be very much informed about ticks, but I was talking to Raquel and Corban about how ticks are dangerous and how they can affect people if they get stung by one. Learning about ticks and how they are not healthy scared me, and I was ...