Day 10 Fixing another Dam

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 dangerous for them to go over to the Black view point. The reason why it would be dangerous is because the beaver would have to cross private properties, highways, and public properties. Public property would be dangerous because dog would attract the beaver, in private property beavers would end up dying because people would kill them jut because they want to, and in highways the beavers would end up being ran over by traffic or people driving crazy. when we arrived to the Black View Point we started walking about 15 minutes to be at the swamp where we had to make the dams. When we got the the stream Roman, Raquel, Alex, and Corban started cutting Willows. Than Yoleth, Joellen, James, and Kyal started putting willows down to make the dams strong. I would wait till there was Willows and take them to Kyal and the people he was with. Soon I was told to get in the stream with Raquel to make a Mattress on the dam that was already made by some workers who made them a few years ago. when we finished with that we headed back to the suburban's witch took us around 10-15 minutes. 

            Yesterday Corban took a Compression Exam that he PASSED. Jessica decided to celebrate and take us and Corban to get a drink at Starbucks. (Corban Loves Coffee☕) 


This is a picture I took of the Image Liz had taken out (There was more, but I only took this picture)


This Images was token because when they made that dam, they notice that it was being used by some wild animals that lives around the swamp area.


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