Our August new Teacher and Volunteer Educator training session, held at the Wildwood Recreation Site on August 15th, was a fun day to be had by all!
With 27 trainees, trainers, and staff in attendance, there was plenty of learning and collaboration taking place throughout the day.
Highlights included finding a number of “healthy indicator” aquatic insects – along with a handful of crawdads, sending a bunch of adults off on a riparian zone scavenger hunt, and having front row seats to a wedding taking place on the shore near our training group (we were testing dissolved oxygen, pH and temperature as the happy couple set off downstream in an inflatable kayak).
If adults can have this much fun “playing” in the river, think of how much fun the students will have this fall!.
After the training, a number of attendees were able to enjoy a beautiful afternoon hiking along the Salmon River in the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness (one of the many benefits of participating in Salmon Watch!).
We have few spots remaining for our September Volunteer Educator training session! Please don’t delay in submitting your Volunteer Educator Application to register.
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We welcome the teachers and trainers that attended our August training to a great upcoming season! Thanks so much for coming out for a fun and fulfilling day!
We would like to thank both Starbucks and Grand Central Bakery for their donations of coffee and pastries for morning refreshments. And a BIG thank you to our trainers for the day:
Walt Hollands, Grant High School
Joe Kelly, Hood River Valley High School
Laurie McDowell, Salmon Watch Volunteer Educator
Jim Martin, World Salmon Council Board Member
Jana Grote, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Left: Walt Hollands discusses with others his finding of a Stonefly exoskeleton with Valerie Verhei and Elliot Hohn. Right: An up close view.
Left: One of four rotating groups discusses what they already know, and what they want to know about the “4 H’s: Habitat, Hydropower, Hatcheries, Harvest”. Right: Jonathan Terhaar presents his group’s discussions on harvest.
Left: Seth Needler holds up the newly captured crawdad at the Macroinvertebrate Sampling station as Donna Acord, Laurie McDowell and Ingrid Dahl observe. Right: Elliot Hohn and Laura Baca take dissolved oxygen levels at the Water Quality Testing Station as trainer Joe Kelly oversees.
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