Hello again everybody,
Today we spent the day in Deschutes National Forest leaning about the different departments in the Forestry Industry. In my previous blog, I told you about our morning in the Lava Rock Caves. After that we headed to met Amy Tinderholt (Recreation Team Leader of Bend Fort Rock). We headed up a butte to Newberry Fire Lookout. Once there we met Doug Johnson (Fire Management Officer of the Bend Fort Rock area) and he spoke about the 140 fires that occur annually in the area, mainly due to humans and lightning.The Deschutes National Forest is composed vastly of Ponderosa Pine. An interesting feature of the Deschutes National Forest landscape are the large areas of cooled lava flow basalt rock. It takes up vast amounts of the area and Doug told us that his department works with the Oregon Transport of Transportation and they use the basalt as an component of roadways.
Aftet Doug finished speaking, we actually headed into the lookout tower and met Stuart Smith-Blockley who was on fire lookout duty. No lie, he was pretty cute ;) One aspect of the lookout that I enjoyed was being able to see all the major ridges and mountains including Mount Adams in the vast distance. It made me feel a little bit closer to home.
After the fire lookout, we headed down the mountain and had a DELICIOUS meal of bbq'd hamburger, chips, and brownies provided by the forest service. At lunch my group met up with Erin Woodard (Deschutes National Forest Archaeologis) and heard about her story and her job protecting cultural artifacts.
Later we walked around the deschutes river with Shane Jefferies (Deputy Forest Supervisor for Deschutes National Forest), Kevin Larkin (District Ranger for Bend Fort Rock) and Amh Tinderholt.
Well that's all I have time for now but more to come!
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