FALL 2009 ACTIVITIES

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Fall is a busy time of year for YBEEP, with teachers and students returning to school, preparations for salmon spawning field trips, and then the pleasant days spent on the river bank watching Spring Chinook completing their life cycle.

Student field trips began on 16 September sponsored by Swiftwater Cellars and the fish held out through October 6th this year. 2168 students, teachers, and members of the public were able to observe spawning salmon through these field trips this year.

Following salmon spawning trips, we jumped into Yakima Rivers Festival presentations, a schoolyard habitat community work day, and storm water groundwater classroom presentations.

		Students view salmon spawning.
		Yakima Rivers Festival presentations.
		Community clean-up on a schoolyard habitat.
		Donated plants for the schoolyard habitat going in the ground..
		Nonnative vegetation comes out and a new trail goes in.
		Making mini aquifers and "polluted groundwater" enters the well.
		Thanks to LaSalle High School for hosting and providing the program for our "Thank You Dinner", and to Roy Sampsel, for being our MC.
		The Watts Family, YBEEP'S salmon spawning field trip sponsors, and the food line.
		Teachers thanking bus sponsors.