People of the Big River 2025 CAMPING trip

Waking up at 7 am felt so nice, I felt like I slept good and was ready for the day. around 8 we started off with gram staining, I only had to do two they where from the from the Crane Prairie samples we did a few days ago, when I finished the red and yellow gram stain I helped Roman with the timer since we did have to meet up with one last person before 9 am. Thomas Tallbull was the man we met today, he gave us a tour  around the Walla Walla Hatchery. Thomas showed us where they kept the fishes and how they made sure the water was good. The thing that helps Thomas make sure the water does not have no bacteria or virus is a machine called Drum Filter. This machine scans the water and search for anything that can hurt the fish. Thomas also told us that the water is so clean that the fished love being there. Thid tour lasted around one hour than we headed back to the camp ground to finish the last gram stains we had so that than we could head to the Nixyaawii Government Agency's confe...

Well today we woke up at 6 am and headed to the CTUIR Plant Nursery and met Gail. She works in Plant Nursery We helped her cut some plants and sort them out into a metal grate, it had a bunch of little squares that held the plants up. Gail showed us the way to cut the plants and ways not to cut the plant, but she also told us that if we mess up it did not matter since it "would not be the end of the world" this made me feel a littler better because I felt like I would probably mess something up. When we finished, Gail told us that she would let us have a plant to take. The plant she gave us was a tree that does not really get sold, since it was not advertised enough. I got a plant and named it Aisha, she's tall and has many leaves. I'm so exited to take it home and care for it, I know my mom and dad will enjoy having a tree home since we do not have any at our house. Around 11 am we headed to Nixyaawii Government Agency where we met Andrew Wildbill he did a presentati...

  This morning was so hard for me to wake up. sine the day prior we made some dams at the Black View Point. We did our best to leave around 7:30 am to get to our next camp ground, since the drive would be around 6-7 hours. when we started our journey Raquel, Roman, Yoleth, And I started talking to each other and making conversation, this made the ride feel less far than what it was. There was a point where Corban started playing music and Raquel had asked if she could play a song, soon after I asked if I could play a song. Raquel liked the music I had put on and she asked me who the singer was. I showed her who she was on her phone and the music she plays. The music Me, Raquel, and Yoleth had played where rap songs, I enjoyed hearing the music Raquel and Yoleth played, I told Raquel that the music she listens to did not match her style, she told me that she "likes surprising people'." Around 40 minutes we started for gas and headed to a rest stop to eat, lunch was good, i...

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 ...

Day 4, we left around 8 am so we could head to our next campsite. Before our drive to Wellpinit fair ground, we made a stop back at Heritage to drop off some extra supplies we had, and to collect some water samples called HU-CONTROL. This stop took around 30 minutes, then we headed off to dry fall and had lunch, the very was fantastic, very beautiful if I do say so myself..... Which I do.  Jessica was telling us the history of dry falls, and this really caught my attention since I did not know the information she gave us. Soon we went back on the drive after a few minutes we drove to a small shop when Monet and Jessica bought some fooD, she told us we were also going to stop at Walmart, but last minute she changed her mind so we headed to wellpinit fairground when we arrived we started setting up our tents and headed to the RV for dinner. When we finished up, we started our encouraging water Samples we had from the previous sites we went to. Jessica started talking to us and told u...

The People of The Big River     6-17-2025         Well.... today, I woke up at 6 a.m. because I had to set up breakfast and the lunch things on the table so that the rest of my classmates could pack their lunch for later and get breakfast. Once we finished we started getting into the suburban to meet up with Jeanette and some other members who work with the Yakama Nation Tribe. During our drive to the Swamp Creek field, Roman, Raquel, and I were talking about our childhood and family. I feel like this was an amazing time since we were talking and it wasn't as quiet in the suburbans as yesterday and the day before. A few minutes later, we arrived at our destination....... This was the time we met the rest of the Yakama Nation Members! There were 6 members who we met, and they were all amazing in their own ways. Some members such as Doug and John are a part of the Yakama Nation Tribe. Patrick Hayden, David Lindley, Jeanette Burkhardt, and Gerard Fol...

People of the Big River. June 16, 2025. The second day, this morning I woke up and there were some classmates as well as the professors who were outside setting up the table for breakfast. They had also set up a table with snacks and food so we could take to have lunch later that day. Our first stop was to a small river called Birck Creeck we took some samples of the water and started fixing something that we would need to find the PH, speed, and turbidity of the water. We also had to take notes of visual observation of the water source. Since the tools we used were the first time some of us have used it took a while for us to get the information. In this area, there was not as much grass around just big boulders and some small rocks.                                                                        ...

During the first day of the People of the Big River, 6-15-2025, we went to Heritage and started doing a lab on good and bad bacteria called a gram stain protocol. Soon after we started loading everything onto the suburban, and figured out what suburban we would be getting on. We then went on our way to our first location called Bird Creek. Once we had arrived at the camping site we unloaded our tents and started setting them up. Roman and I struggled to set up our tent since the ground was rough and did not let us put the stakes onto the ground, I looked over to see if everyone was also struggling, but everyone had their tents set up already. Soon one of our classmates saw us struggling and helped us set our tent up, we did have to move places a few times. Later we had dinner and had fun meeting and talking to our classmates.