POTBR, Spokane Forestry!

​Day three!

Tribal Forestry!

After a comfortable nights rest and some amazing toasted oats cereal we was ready to visit Spokane Tribal Forestry. We spent the half a day visit with the one and only George Teters, Forestry Tec. Teters is also a fire fighter. The tribal forestry department does a lot of thinning forest areas, planting trees, logging trees and cutting after forest fires. 

The goal for the forestry is to “ ‘complete’ the cycle. ‘Planting is only 1% of regeneration. Nature does 99%”, George Teters. 

Teters shared with us other work the forestry department has to do, for example tree surveys, where they tape out an area and count the different trees and the percentages of the different types of trees. The tree survey will than indicated the forest tree species percentage’s. 


 

After being out in the forest learning about forestry ways we went to Cottonwood creek to take samples of the water. We use two different gadgets to examine the creek water to find out the size of the creek and the turbidity, sunflect, canopy density, leaf angle, gap fraction, par LAI, par AVG, PH, and certainty of the creek. Our plan is to examine the bacteria in the samples we collect over time. 

After the half of day we had with forestry we just went back to camp. We did have a observation/program planning package to do about the Little Shimmakan creek. Me and my classmate Agnes Meninick, Jr/Sr was partnered up and our observation was about how the beaver dams was helping the creek’s health and causing all the natural fish population to come back. Agnes and I came up with a plan to put in “beaver dam analogs” to improve the creeks health even more, to see if it bring the fish population up even more.

After the dinner and Shimmakan creek observation package we just called it a day. I just stayed in my tent and wrapped the day up with YouTube videos that are in my interest. For example I like to watch videos about apex legends game play. My favorite channel to watch is Nick Mercs. 

 


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