July 15th

On 7/15/19 We woke up at 6:30 am and had some breakfast along with some lunch meat. After, we signed some volunteer form’s, so we could go work with the botanists. While working with the botanists there we met Marlow fisher- botanist, plant manager for the U.S. forest service and she is from bend/fort rock. Next, we met Charlene, she is a botanist for the district. First, we were given some back-round information for example in the year 1994 they collected 87 samples of the green tinted paintbrush that information was interesting because that was the only time they had counted those trees. We were also told the paintbrush can only be found in central Oregon so that was cool. Next, we were counting plants specifically the green tinted paintbrush. I asked a question “what does this plant do for the ecosystem?” I was then told she doesn’t quite know but she does know the plant must survive with a host or the plant will die because Charlene said, “The plant has a root that connects to the other plant and takes water and other resources”. After, we decided to form a wall and find what paintbrush plants we could we also marked them by using flags and tape. We finished our work and we were told that in the year 2019 we counted 414 green tinted paintbrushes. It was fun plus if I had the opportunity I would do it again. For dinner we ate spaghetti and garlic bread and then we had a circle while in the circle we had a talk there, we talked about some stuff and what we thought of the trip. After we talked at he fire, some of us stayed up and some of us went to bed.