Today we got up around 6:30 ish because we needed to make
our lunch so we could get on the road before 7:30. We went to the DNR building
in Wellpinit because we had people that were giving us a tour of the building.
Our friend Warren asked his boss if he wanted to talk us about what he does as
the DNR director. Warrens’ bosses name Is B.J Kieffer. B.J has 2 problems to
deal with as he works with the DNR. The 1st problem is an open pit
that used to be a Uranium mine. The 2nd problem is the fact that the
fish can’t travel back up the river, but the damns prevent them from traveling
to the upper parts of the river. B.J Has had many of the elders come to him and
ask him for their fish to come back. B.J went to school to become a teacher,
but he changed his mind and went into forestry. He went to SFCC and got an AA.
He went to UI and got a bachelors. We went over to the DNR fire and they talked
about how more jobs are opening up here for jobs. We met with Vernon L. Stearns
JR because he had a power point to show us what he does in his job. He works as
the fuels manager for the DNR fire building. He also works with other tribes
and other counties. His team also does a lot of prescribe burns because they
didn’t want a big fire that would burn hot and with high intensity. We
went and checked out places with George and he told us what they are doing with
an overcrowded bunch of tress.
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