Day Three: White Salmon River
Day Three:
7/9/18
Today we woke up at 5:30am to get ready for the day. We had to leave at 7:00am to do the activities that were planned. So we had a tight schedule and really had to get moving. I am in group 3. We have three groups of four and each one has a different job to do, but every day we switch jobs. Today my group was responsible for taking breakfast out. Group 1, dishes. Group 2, cleaning up the food. We all worked together to get hurry and get done. Still, no matter how fast we were, we still manage to leave a little later than expected. We left at 7:30am.
After we had left, we started heading to White Salmon in Washington. We had arrived in Husun and this was actually really close to White Salmon. When we stopped, we were greeted by a women named Jeanette Burkhardt.
She is a Yakama Nation Watershed coordinator. She talked to us today about what her work is and how the water is important, especially for the salmon. She took us on a little walk to the Husun falls and talked to us about the fish that swim upstream to spawn. She also said the water that flows through the White Salmon River is 45o – 48o year round. The salmon are very sensitive to temperature change, and they do not like hot water. Some salmon that are not native to the White Salmon River tend to swim into the river to cool off before there long journey up the Columbia River. While learning these new things about the fish and how the water is important, we started to head to the Condit Dam site where the dam was taken down the water was released back to the river. The site was just beautiful. The water looked fresh and cool. The hike to get down there was kind of hot, but it was well worth it because it was beautiful.
The “cliffs” we were standing on, were actually the concrete rubble from the dam that was there before. It was interesting to see the big changes the landscape went though. Still the land and the river looked untouched, it was just a beautiful site. So, we had to take some pictures.
After our hike down to the dam site, we dove to the Northwestern Park to eat our lunch. After we ate, we took a hike down to where the water used to be and how vegetation was needed to make the land stable. The native vegetation was needed because they wanted to have the natural setting to help other wildlife adapt. After learning how the vegetation was important, we had returned to the vehicles and proceeded back to camp. When we arrived, me, my cousin Priscilla Williams, and our friend Amelia Andy went down to the river to swim. The water was ice cold. It was fun though, swimming and having fun. Reminds me of when I was little. I wish to come again.
7/9/18
Today we woke up at 5:30am to get ready for the day. We had to leave at 7:00am to do the activities that were planned. So we had a tight schedule and really had to get moving. I am in group 3. We have three groups of four and each one has a different job to do, but every day we switch jobs. Today my group was responsible for taking breakfast out. Group 1, dishes. Group 2, cleaning up the food. We all worked together to get hurry and get done. Still, no matter how fast we were, we still manage to leave a little later than expected. We left at 7:30am.
After we had left, we started heading to White Salmon in Washington. We had arrived in Husun and this was actually really close to White Salmon. When we stopped, we were greeted by a women named Jeanette Burkhardt.
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| This is Jeanette Burkhardt talking about the Condit Dam. |
She is a Yakama Nation Watershed coordinator. She talked to us today about what her work is and how the water is important, especially for the salmon. She took us on a little walk to the Husun falls and talked to us about the fish that swim upstream to spawn. She also said the water that flows through the White Salmon River is 45o – 48o year round. The salmon are very sensitive to temperature change, and they do not like hot water. Some salmon that are not native to the White Salmon River tend to swim into the river to cool off before there long journey up the Columbia River. While learning these new things about the fish and how the water is important, we started to head to the Condit Dam site where the dam was taken down the water was released back to the river. The site was just beautiful. The water looked fresh and cool. The hike to get down there was kind of hot, but it was well worth it because it was beautiful.
The “cliffs” we were standing on, were actually the concrete rubble from the dam that was there before. It was interesting to see the big changes the landscape went though. Still the land and the river looked untouched, it was just a beautiful site. So, we had to take some pictures.
After our hike down to the dam site, we dove to the Northwestern Park to eat our lunch. After we ate, we took a hike down to where the water used to be and how vegetation was needed to make the land stable. The native vegetation was needed because they wanted to have the natural setting to help other wildlife adapt. After learning how the vegetation was important, we had returned to the vehicles and proceeded back to camp. When we arrived, me, my cousin Priscilla Williams, and our friend Amelia Andy went down to the river to swim. The water was ice cold. It was fun though, swimming and having fun. Reminds me of when I was little. I wish to come again.
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