POBR 2024

 today is travel day we pack up and leave Mitchell oregon  and head over the next destination which i called harris park. it will be another 4 hour drive which is crazy we made one stop and then continued the way. won't be much going on so until tomorrow 

  todays sounds like a good day we are suppose to be out with a geologist and looking and talking about rocks how they are formed and how they are made. sounds like a good day before that starts we will be eating breakfast and start packing our lunches. we got up little early to try and beat the sun excited for the day. we are all loaded up and ready to head to our first spot. we spot and pulled over in wheeler county or john day dam area our geologist that is with us showing us around is Brenan van alder werlt it is clear skies where we are and its about 7:17am. Brandon works for the Washington department of natural resource's his job is to study the earth for the good of the public. honestly was hard to take note only cause i could not understand what he was talking about the complexity was a little to much for my brain but i did write down as much notes as i could and all the little fun facts he was mentioning. like igneous rocks are rocks that have been cooled from liquid they...

 good morning we woke up and left heading for the new destination which is Mitchell oregon. we did the usual  had breakfast and packed up camp and headed on the road we got to check out this nice museson/zoo which was called high desert i believe it was really nice they had a bigfoot exhibit and also had a plateau native exhibit yakama nation also had a nice exhibit in there was nice to see work from home making its way out of Washington. also found out some interesting facts about the area we was in and found out where this people of the big river project came from. was probably one the best museum i been in. in one the areas there was even  a video playing and they was talking about how uis native americans gather our first foods and what the process was but it was nice to hear even tho its something they don't always try to go in depth for a certain reason just can't remember. learned about some animals and amphibian's they have in the areas as well.

  good morning we are up early  and having our breakfast when  are done with the usually eating and making lunches we will go meet up with a botanist. we are on the road now heading to the spot that i don't know the name of just yet. we been driving for a hour now almost to our detonation and i can say we are out in the middle of nowhere it looks like if we was down in a part of arizona is what it reminded me of and thought that was nice. but honestly i think it was the pumice rocks that drew me back cause in Arizona they have cinder rocks that looks the same have a pores looks to them but the difference is pumice rocks actually are the only type of rock that can float and pumice is white not a maroon red like the cinder rocks. we got to meet our botanist her name is marlo fisher she will be showing us how to do a rare plant survey. we all lined up in the first field that is home to a rare plant called pumus moonwart scientific name botrichium pumicola this part of the fe...

 good morning we had our breakfast and did a little lab which is called bacteria separation. we picked from one of the sides of the bio paddle mainly want to pick the side that has growth. and these samples came from the creeks we have been to previously.The bio paddle had a red indication which means there is growth which means there was exposure to  coliform and fecal matter in the water. the lab is done now we are heading out to the lava lands i have never heard of this place so i'm excited heard we are get to explore a cave. we are here getting a briefing about the cave and the nots and dos in the cave. we are walking down into the cave and immediately can feel how cold it will be in the cave. Sophia who had been working for americorp as a conservation educator for about year will be out VIP tour guide shes telling us it stays a whopping 42 degrees year round. the cave is 2 miles in total one mile in one mile out was a nice walk and experience to be apart of. After this we...

Good morning we woke up early this morning to pack up camp and get ready to head out and head to the next location to set up camp. This drive will be 4 hours from glenwood to Deschutes national forest. we are on the road and most of the student's fell asleep i should probably to but my music keeps me awake lol listen to the wrong tracks. we stopped like two or three times at at safeway or a store to get things we need for dinner then back on the road maybe another hour and a half so i should probably get some rest before we get to camp. we got to pick our spots and find out where we are setting up our tents monet is working on dinner don't know what it is but smells good. dinners ate camps set up this was just a travel day didn't have much to do. until tomorrow 

We got to sleep in a bit today because its a science day today as dr. black called it and tbh it felt pretty good. We had our breakfast when we was done we made out lunches for the day. then we headed to the Glenwood cafe to get our actual blog set up and started. this process took  a little bit to set up cause we had to transfer what he had from the first two days. i also had to reapply for a tribal scholarship so we had to stay a little longer to get those turned in. while we was working on these blogs dr. shuster went and grabbed some side by sides so we can make way to a couple spots to take some water samples. we also tested the ph levels and the conductivity of the water. we made it to the first spot that was heavily impacted by a fire in 2018. when we got down to in it was a pretty tiny stream called snow plow creek that was glacier feed it wasn't a big stream maybe about 3 1/2 centimeter deep and probably about 1-3 feet wide. we made our way back to the side by sides to to ...

Day 2 of POBR we woke to Jessica's wake up call like she said she would do we had our cold breakfast and packed our lunch. then we all loaded up and headed to our first locations where they are trying to restore life pretty much back to this little creek called blockhouse creek  which is private property overall purpose of today are (BDA) beaver dam analogs, also stream habitat restoration. Jeanette Burkhardt is a watershed planner she was nice and explain to us what we will be doing today. Her colleague Gerrard foley was pretty funny and chill to talk to his title is a habitat biologist which I didn’t know they had such a title but it's nice to know little bit of what he knows he also was the guy having us pack huge logs not sure how we did it but we got them where they needed to be was some real labor work making dams and learning how to make a somewhat close to what a beaver would make 

  Day 1 Well today we met at the school I got in a little early was scared I would oversleep and not be at the school by 10:30 had to inventory all our equipment and that took a little long to get it all packed and loaded then we had a little wait because we could get all our gear to fit. Got it to fit and now its about 2:40 finally making are way to our first camp location bird creek. Monet is cooking burgers for our dinner while some of us get the fire started its colder her then expected and i felt if i got more then i needed i would have been doing to much but i wish i brought my hoodies. dinner was great something simple and good can't ever go wrong with bugers to end the evening. i couldn’t think of better way to start the trip this location is a pretty one well taken care and right next to a stream the sound of water running is always one the most peaceful noise you can have in the background to sleep. I would use these noises on YouTube to play at night but being here and...