POBR 2026 Day 9 Mt. Adams Meadows BDA

Today we started our day as the usual way. We had our breakfast and the breakfast group got the breakfast supplies out along with the lunch supplies. So we all ate our breakfast and all made our lunches. So after we got camp packed up we met up with some people from YKFP at the Grange in glenwood. Which is Yakima Klickitat Fisheries Project. the names of the people from the crew are Jeanette Burkhardt who is a Watershed Planner, David Lindley who is a Habitat Coordinator and Gerard Foley who is a Habitat/Biology. they are also my coworkers who I work with within the Yakama nation fisheries. it was a good feeling seeing what happens within the Yakama nation fisheries because I spend most of my time in the office being on my computer. I deal with the GSA vehicles that each project uses my list contains 40 vehicles that I look over. and my bosses has the other two lists. we also deal with the purchase orders that each projects order through our vendors for their projects. so seeing the things that they do and they equipment they buy gave me a much better perspective on how important the purchase orders are when I look through them to make sure the entire order is there. Once we met up with them we followed them to the site we are working at today. Which was Mt. Adams Meadows. There is a stream that was occupied by beavers in the meadow. We helped the crew make BDAs. Beaver Dam Analogs. Which was a good project to do. We had lodgepole pine trees that were a few years old so they weren't too big. We placed those in the creek first, than there was willow stakes that were made from willow trees. And they were staked down into the stream to hold the lodgepole pine in place. Once that was finished we used the tree branches and placed them inside the trees to kind of help hold the water. After that step was finished we placed sedament from the bank on top of the willow branches and in-between them to help better hold the water. Once we got it to where it held the water better we threw bigger heavier logs that were already pre cut on top of the willow and pine trees which turned into a dam. We repeated the same process on the second dam we built. We had to kind of speed through the second dam a bit because they found a previous damn they had built that needed immediate attention. We quickly chopped down more small lodgepole pine trees and dug up more sedament as well as some precut downed trees. And quickly patched up the dam as best as we could. Also after we had our lunch break a few of us went across the creek and started digging holes for our soul samples that we collected. I attached photos of today's adventure.