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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...