Day 2!

Rehabilitation Projects

Today, we met a couple of people who work for Warm Springs Natural Resources. Jason was a fish biologist who informed us on the problems with fish in the Shitike Creek. Austin was a wildlife technician who monitors mule deer in the area. He told us about the decrease in different animal populations especially deer. 

Shitike Creek

The Shitike is very popular on the Warms Springs Reservation. The purpose of this project is to try to prevent the creek from flooding. The restoration took about 6 weeks total. The project finished in 2009 and as a result this stream now has access to a flood plane (place to flood). Overall it cost $545,000 to make this happen!!! That's a crazy amount of money but I think the outcome is and will stay positive in the future.