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July 19, 2019

July 19, 2019 This morning was freezing, it was honestly the coldest during this entire trip. It could be my body wanting to come home already but let’s just say that I am ready to go home and sleep in my own bed. After waking up I got up and went to shower and change. Funny thing was that a few of us in our little village were supposed to wake up by five to go sand dollar hunting but that did not happen. After getting dressed I started packing and organizing my bag. I was so extremely ready to get out of there. Don’t get me wrong, the beach is a beautiful place to wake up to but gosh was I home sick.  After breakfast, Bee and I went to walk alongside the shores for a while. After speaking and saying our goodbye to the ocean and sand we headed back to the rv. That’s when I realized that  my team and I were in charge of organizing our foods into piles and throwing out what wasn’t good. Which on a normal day, I am all for organizing but today I was so lazy and didn’t want to d
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July 18, 2019

July 18, 2019 This morning we woke up and knew that today was travel day. After doing it for what felt like months, we all had a system when it came to taking down our tent and sharing responsibility. For my tentmates, we knew that before breakfast we wanted to have the majority of our things packed if not be fully packed. When it came to the tent tear down, we knew that Bee and Same would take care of it since the mishap that occurred in Deschutes (a tent pole snapped and was repaired by bright red tape).  After packing and getting loaded up we hit the road. We had planned to stop at Eugene in order to use the public library and upload our blogs. We arrived in Eugene and it was so amazing. I felt like I was in Seattle or a large city, so it felt nice. Once we entered the library, we all spread out to type our little hearts away. After an hour passed, a group of decided to go with Brandon to eat some Asian food. So, we all jumped up and left to the restaurant. We started to pa
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July 17, 2019

July 17, 2019 Today we woke up at an earlier time than before. It was our full day with the Klamath tribe and the fish and wildlife building. When we got to the location we were greeted by Alex and two of his co-workers. During our time at this location I honestly was so intrigued by how much knowledge was poured out.  Alex started the conversation with a history lesson about when the fur trappers came into Klamath in the 1820s and proceeded to speak about the history the town had.  In 1864, the Modoc war was happening which lead to the treaty of 1864. This treaty ended up combining three tribes into one tribe. The Klamath tribe is consisted of the Modoc, Klamath, and Yahooskin tribes. In 1986, the tribes petitioned the government to be a federal entity and was granted it. The termination act gave the tribe only 12,000 acres of land versus the 2.2 million acres they once had.  It was mentioned that only thirteen native fish’s circles around the Klamath river basin, and now
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July 16, 2019

This morning we woke up at about five-fifteen in the morning to make it to Crater Lake National Park. This was something that mostly all of us wanted to make sure we got to see. We had a peer who was talking nonstop about how beautiful it was and how he had heard so much about the location. Erick really shared his interest which made us want to see this beauty for ourselves. When we noticed that we made enough time to get there we were pretty thrilled about the idea of actually making it to the location. Once arriving at crater lake, we were mesmerized by the beauty of the clear blue water and the surrounding sights. In the middle of the lake there was a small island named “Wizard island” and it was gorgeous. It seemed as though it was its own sight you needed to go and have an adventure in. A few of us went on a small hike towards the top of “watchman’s trail,” while some of us got lost going the opposite way. It was bizarre to see snow in the middle of July, but i
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July 15, 2019

This morning we woke up by six-thirty in the morning and started with our morning routine. The entire crew broke into two groups. The first group was the non “environmental science and studies” and the second one was the environmental science people . I was a part of the first group who left campsite. And when I read the itinerary, I realized that our group was on service day. We were scheduled to work an eight-hour day into two section. We first started with the pulling of the weeds in the man-made meadow. The man that was the first to meet us was Tom Walker, he was in charge of the Riparim Restoration. These weeds were planted by the Deschutes National Forestry and it ended up back firing for them. The weeds were supposed to attract the wild animals and it did, but it also started to kill the possibility for native flowers to bloom in that area once more. We spent about three and a half hours pulling weeds. I will say that the team did most of the work because when
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July 14, 2019

Today started out with a few of us getting our things ready for the day. We were on a mission to get going earlier than normal. Our goal was to get to the city of Deschutes and walk around the Deschutes River trail. We got to Deschutes with good enough time so that we could walk around Walk around the Deschutes River trail. This was a beautiful way to see how the environment was manipulated into a living area where homes and walking trails would coexist. It was so nice to see the walking trail near the river, but it also made me a little worried when I was walking around the trail and saw “private property” signs on certain areas due to it belonging to the home owner. After our small hike around the river we headed out to meet at Joy and Rick’s home. They were so kind to offer all twenty-four of us some warm showers, a meal, and some Wi-Fi. Around this time David (Jessica’s cousin) left back home. David was such a nice guy; he was an uncle to all of us. We really
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