Enterprise 5th & 6th Grade OWL Program
September 10th-13th, 2007
We just finished a fabulous week of outdoor school (OWL) with the Enterprise 5th & 6th graders and their teachers, Lorri Fischer, Colby Knifong, and Mark Keffer. Doug McDaniel and Gail Hammack were very gracious in letting us use their Wallowa River Habitat Restoration Project for the program. All week, students learned about the project and how it increased stream health and habitat diversity for the aquatic life in the river. Visit our photos and read about the program!
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This aerial image is of the Wallowa River Habitat Restoration Project and the field site for outdoor school. (Photo courtesy of Grande Ronde Model Watershed) |
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Students, broken into small field groups, begin the day. |
Each field team consisted of 14 students, a field instructor, and a teacher or parent chaperone. |
In total, there were 4 field teams and each field team rotated to a different field instructor each day: |
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The Stream Team: students learned hands-on about the aquatic bugs in the river and how they’re indicators of stream health. |
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Roots and Shoots: students discovered the different tree and shrub types in the riparian area along the Wallowa River. |
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The Wildside of Wallowa County: students studied the wildlife habitat in the riparian area along the river, as well as how the new stream structure created a diversity of habitat for the aquatic wildlife. |
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Meridians, Migrations, and More: students learned to use compasses to navigate, as well as what means wildlife use to navigate while migrating. |
On the last day as a celebration, Craig Nichols joined us to sing songs and recite some of his cowboy poetry about cowboy life in Wallowa County. Winston Morton also joined us from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. He gave tours of the new habitat restoration project occurring upstream on the Wallowa River from the one we studied all week for outdoor school. |
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A student smiles as he listens to Craig Nichols recite some of his cowboy poetry. |
Students listen to Winston Morton, a fisheries biologist with ODFW, explain the new habitat restoration project on the Wallowa River. |
