Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Day 2

Today was very exciting, we talked to Austin Smith and Jason Grant. Austin was a wild life technician, and Jason was a fish biologist. They took us for a walk/hike down by Shitike creek and talked to us about the restored creek and showed us it's old channel. The new channel has increased it's amounts in fish, and has brought a "new" fish to the creek coho salmon. We did a lot of work on scientific method.

We went up about 5 miles up from Shitike creek where Austin showed us how he collars Mule Deer, and we talked about how farrel horses are killing the Mule Deer food, and the reduction this has done to the Mule Deer population. There are 7,000 Farrel horse in area of warm spring.

Then we went to a non-restored creek and Jason was telling us about the plans to restore it and the cost and what the problems were now. He asked us what we thought they were going to do to restore the creek before he told us and our ideas were, fixing the speed of the creek (it was very fast), and adding logs and rocks and materials like that. Many our ideas were correct and the restored creek would cost 1.2 millon is about how much it would cost to restore it.

Today was full of knowledge and i didn't type a lot of it because I'm very tired and yeah. anyway today was very cool and it made me think about wanting a career in wildlife biology.

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