Day 15

This morning we all woke up at 6:30 because we needed to make breakfast and lunch so we could go meet our tour guides. The people that we met with work at different offices and different jobs. We met with Lance, Clint and their boss and couple of their youth forestry helpers. Lance told us about 3p which means Project Process Program. He would also bring community members up into the forest to ask for their opinion on what to ndo if theywanted to log wood from that area. The foresters use data that he collects tohelp them find the best logging areawith the best wood. Lance would go out and collect data and then he would compile the data for the loggers. The fire department will go in after the loggers and burn the piles of wood, but they will leave 2-3 piles for the wildlife. The loggers will also leave the 2-5 big pines per acre. Lance talked to us about how they go in and do a boundary that tells the loggers not to go past into someone’s yard or onto someone’s feeding land.  He told us how he will go and take some data so that he can go and make a map for the loggers so that they know what to log and cut down. After lunch,  Lance and Clint bruoght their equipment out showed us. Lance showed us his equipment and he told us that he needs to mark every tree so thatb it is  accounted for when they do logging sessions. Lance showed us a book that determines what can be used in an area that is going to be logged. Clint talked to us about the equipment and showed us what type of equipment that he uses when he is fighting fire on the front lines.They told us about how important it is to carry a GPS unit and a c ompass incas you get lost while working in the forest.

Day 14

Today we woke up at 6:30 because we needed to make breakfast and lunch, so we could meet our tour guide Lucy Luevano. Lucy is the Traditional Cultural Preservation Officer for the Colville Confederated Tribes. She told us about the Caribou Trail. We met with a lady named Amanda and she an interpreter at the Fort Okanogan lookout. We looked at many artifacts at the Fort Okanogan lookout. We took pictures outside as we looked at were the Fort was originally placed by the River.  Lucy then took us to the CCT museum by Grand Coulee Dam. We met with Franklin Andrews because he works at the front desk. Franklin talked about the pictures and artifacts that were in the museum. He talked about his education pathways and he told us that he got an internship with the Tribe at the museum. He also told us about the Natives lived back in the old days. We went back to the Government building because that was part of our tour of the day. We met with several people that work there as Archaeologists and Tribal Archaeologist.  The other three Archaeologists names are as follows: Arrow Coyote, Kevin Donald, and Amelia Stanger. Arrow works as the person that went and pieced together the artifacts history. Amelia works as the traditional lands firefighter if the lands are threatened by fire. Devin works as the tribal archaeologist because he fell in love with Native American Artifacts. I learned that Washington State gave the Colville Confederated Tribes their Native homeland back.

Day 13

This morning we woke up at 7:30 because we had to make breakfast and work on our blogs. We needed to finish our blogs because we weren’t going to leave our original spot until we were done with our blogs. As we worked on our blogs, we started playing and took breaks, so we didn’t overload our brains. We finally finished our blogs at 11:00 and we had our lunch. We left our original spot at 2:17 and didn’t get to our new camping spot until 4:20. We made dinner and ate so we could do the dishes and go to the Trading Post. After we left the trading we got back to the camp site. We made a sharing circle and shared what we were thankful for during this trip. We were let go and we started working on our blogs and updated them.