POBR2026 DAY 13 Seed Extractory and Deschutes Public library

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 40. She also mentioned that warmsprings is one of their biggest customers to get their seeds extracted.the seed Extractory also provides seeds to any governmental agency. She also mentioned that the Nebraska national Forest is the only man made national forest. She mentioned that they take any scope and any scale of seeds. So small portions up to big portions of seed. The three steps she told us about are 1) extraction 2) finishing and 3) testing. The tour of the Extractory was pretty good. Kayla was pretty informative when she gave us the tour. We are now at the public library getting our blogs finished and up to date. I sat by the charging station so I can charge my cell phone and work cell phone. after we are finished here at the library we will be going to a carwash to get the school vehicles washed. and we will also be doing a deep clean on the insides as well. we will be vacuuming and wiping down the intereior. the photos I attached are many of the machines that they use for the extraction and testing of seeds. 

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