Hello Families!
We have been working very hard this past week to finish up our fall expedition final product. As you know, last week we traveled down to Sweetwater Creek. At our field site we worked closely with the Nez Perce Water Quality Coordinator, Restoration Manager, Botanist, and several field technicians to asses the current water quality and vegetative conditions. This was a very fruitful day for us, as we collected both quantitative and qualitative data pertinent to our restoration project. This week we have been processing the data, and writing up a formal management plan for the section of Sweetwater Creek we will be working with. This plan spans the next three years, so the next two sixth CREWs will be maintaining the work conducted this year, as well as developing additional restoration sites.
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| morning briefing between the experts and our CREW |
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| A typical section of Sweetwater Creek (notice the lack of native vegetation) |
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| Hannah collecting initial qualitative data |
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| This field is a primary restoration site for our CREW. Our restoration plan's goal is to restore this entire field with native vegetation. |
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| Macro Invertebrate collection |
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| more macro invertebrate collecting |
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| Lauren collecting instream samples of macros |
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| Noah recording pH data |
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| in-class analyses and synthesis of Sweetwater Creek data |
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| CREW synthesizing the restoration plan |
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| Water quality and ideal steelhead conditions group collaborating to synthesize the field data from SWC. |
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| Collaboration between the short term/long term timeline group and the field logistics group. It was imperative that groups communicate effectively. |
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| Sara analyzing satellite imagery of SWC |
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| Synthesizing this management plan required a lot of critique and revision |
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| To celebrate our academic accomplishments we held the first annual 'Economic Growth Day' .... as you can see, we are quite the serious bunch |
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