POBR2026 Day 5

 This morning we woke up and started the day with eating breakfast and getting the lunch supplies out so we could make our lunch after we ate. Once we got everything done we packed up and made our way to the Imtwaha fish hatchery. Once we got there we got a tour of the facility from the assistant hatchery manager Emily Meshke. The hatchery focuses  on reintroducing the spring chinook smolts into the walla walla basin. They release 100,000 into the headwaters of mill creek, 100,000 into the mouth of the walla walla river, and 300,000 are pumped into the south fork of the walla walla river at the hatchery. They collect adult fish in may and june at nursery bridge dam fish trap downstream from the hatchery. Than the adults are transported to imtwaha and held until spawning occurs which is in august and september. We also got to take a look at their sorter trailer where they clip the fins of the smolts. This trailer can sort through 7k smolt an hour and average about 6.5k. Once the tour was over couple of the employees introduced themselves to us and we introduced ourselves to them. The two employees are Brian Startzl who is a fish tech 3 and has been employed with the Umatilla DNR for 19 years. And the other employee is sunhawk thomas who is a temporary worker. He is currently  going to school in haskel in Kansas city. I attached some photos of the hatchery.

The second stop of the day we went to the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) Native Plant nursery. Where we met Gail Redberg. She does alot of restoration work for multiple entities including other tribes. She grows many native plants including cottonwood, red dogs bane, sage, elderberry. The nursery has been around since 1994. In 2004 they got their first greenhouse. They do alot for the riparian and shrub steppe. They grow these native plants because they are culturally significant to the landscape. As we visited we got a tour of the greenhouses and showed us multiple plants they are currently growing. We even got a peek on one of the employees Luis who was doing transplanting of cottonwood. Once we were done with the tour we had our lunch break. After the lunch break we helped Gail by topping a row of cottonwood and reorganized them by how they should be. Which is in sort of a checkered row so they could grow easily and get equal amounts of water. We got through half of the row before we had to leave. I attached some photos of the nursery.











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