People Of The Big River 2026

Today we got to sleep in until 730 am. Felt kind of relieved we have a day where we're not on a tight schedule and rushing to get to the meet up spot. So having a good normal paced day feels pretty good. Today our group was in charge of getting breakfast ready and the lunch supplies. We are also helping with dinner as well. After we got our lunches made and ate our breakfast we made our trip to the seed Extractory. Where we will be getting a tour at 10 am. Which I think will be a good tour can't wait to see what goes down. I have never been here before so it will be a good experience. When we arrived here we had a small talk with Kayla Herriman who is the national seed specialist. Kayla herriman showed us a couple raw seed material one was ambrosia. Kayla also showed us where they X-ray the seed to see if it has an embryo. Because if it doesn't have an ambryo than it won't be able to grow a tree. The machine they used for that was a Kubtec Xpert ...

started off the day as usual the breakfast group got breakfast and lunch supplies ready. Our group was in charge of clean up. After we got everything put away we started to gather our things. We gathered our notebooks, soil sample supplies, and our shower stuff. Once we had everything packed up we started the trip to go meet up with Marlo. We stopped and gassed up the vehicles.excited to see what we will learn today. Yesterday was in my experience the best day so far.we met Marlo at the meet up spot and she is leading us to the site we will be at for the day. Can't wait to see how this day goes.once we got to the site we were on the hunt for the pumus moonwort. And I must say it was pretty awesome to look for. Put my eyes to work lol on the way back I had to stop and look at something faraway so my eyes would stop hurting. After lunch we made our way to stop at a natural spring that is rare to see in this area. After we looked at that we made our way to the second site....

Our group was in charge of dishes this am and after everyone had breakfast and made their lunches we started to do them. Once we were finished we started packing up camp and gathered the empty water bottles so we could refill them. Once we were done we started making our way to the lava river cave and lava lands.we met Alex he has a background in forestry like fire management and fuels. who is giving us a tour of the lava tubes and surrounding area.we also had a small presentation by Christine Hughe  who is a park ranger.We waited for 10 am thats when the shuttle bus was doing the first trip up to lava butte look out. Which was a good walk around the top and showed some pretty good views of the surrounding area.once we were done up there we waited for the shuttle to get back so we can make our way back down.once we got back down we followed Alex over to the next stop which was the lava tube cave. Which for my first time seeing was absolutely amazing and beautiful. When ...