People of the Big River day 6

 

I woke up at 5:30 AM and showered in the very nice shower at the Indian Creek Community Forest building.  We ate breakfast and got our lunches ready for the day. Ray Entz the director of Wildlife Terrestrial Resources. He told us about how Kalispel Tribe Natural Resources Department was created in 1992. Although Ray was not enrolled member of Kalispel, he had a lot of useful information about Kalispel Natural Resources and some history. He also informed us how the Grizzly bear was a native species for this area but now are listed as threatened under the Federal Endangered Species Act and Endangered in Washington State. After we got done talking to Ray, we were shown their tree nursery which is one of their many projects the tribe is working on to increase number of native tree species. We pulled out weeds from the tree buckets to help the young trees grow without competition. After 11 AM we regathered around our camp site and packed our backpacks with water and lunches then drove up to a rock quarry. Dr. Black explained the different rock types and how they are formed which was very interesting. We collected fifteen different types of rocks in that area and placed them in a line from biggest to smallest. Based on rock sizes and how they were formed, how all the rocks got to this location was by glaciers very interesting. We came down from the rock quarry and met Joel Addams who was a member for the Spokane Tribe and worked for the Kalispel Tribe. He told us about his amazing experiences of wrangling buffalo while riding a horse in Montana while he was earning his master’s degree in forestry at Montana. We ventured down to the Kalispel Tribal reservation. We then came back to the camp site. Me and Agnes helped Monet Becenti make Tofu Stir Fry. I then spent some time uploading blogs.

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