Salmon Trip 

Application for Fall 2016 Program

September 18-20

It will last three days with two nights at Gavin Lake.    Go to www.scoutislandnaturecentre.ca and click on salmon trip 2015 to see pictures from that  year’s trip.  This will help you answer the questions below. 

Goal:   To involve students in activities that help them appreciate how a watershed works—the animals, the plants, the water, the geography and how humans fit in. 

Details:

Twenty students from School District #27 will work together with teachers and biologists doing the following:

• Chinook Brood Stock collection –You will be in the river helping to catch adult spawning Chinook salmon so that eggs and sperm can be harvested. 
• Do activities involving stream invertebrates, salmon dissection, and stream dynamics
• Hike and learn about forest ecostystems
• Doing natural history observations (birds, plants, possibly bears and other mammals)
• Art in Nature
• First Nations and Natural Resources

You will be expected to be outdoors working, to share a cabin with 7-10 others, and have arranged to miss your other classes. 

Complete the following:

1. What parts of this field trip really interest you?

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2. What do you want to learn from this experience?

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3. Is there anything else you would like to add?

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4.  If you are a returning participant,  what would  you like to help lead?

You will be asked to think about your Ecological Footprint and what changes you can make to shrink it to help steward the water and land.  The first evening we will cover information you will need to understand the work we will do on and in the river with salmon and other species. 

Journal: While it is your journal to record your experiences, excerpts of it may also be used to submit with program grant applications. This would not be done without your permission

Transportation, food, accommodation and staff costs are being covered by Scout Island Nature Centre,  Gavin Lake, Quesnel River Research Centre, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), PAC and your fees.  The total cost for the field trip is $7500 or $375 per student.  Your fee is only  $50. 

Action Project: Each student is required to do 5 hours of stewardship work this spring or early fall with the WL Campus Enviro  Club, the Columnetza Greenies, or Scout Island Nature Centre .  During the summer, you can do  stewardship work directly with Scout Island Nature Centre.  Contact Sue at 398 8532 to arrange it. 

Please sign this contract.

I agree to take part in all of the activities of the field trip and complete an action project to a standard acceptable by teachers, Sue Hemphill (Scout Island Nature Centre), and Guy Scharf (DFO).  I understand that the completion of the action project and the journal is necessary to help ensure the continuation of the program. 

Name:________________________________________________ Grade in September:__________

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Teacher recommending you:_________________________

Contact Info (student):

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Parents/Guardians,

By signing below you have read the above application.  You agree to support your student in the completion of the Action Project with the understanding that it is an integral part of the Salmon Trip.

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Contact Info (parent/guardian):

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Applications should be turned into Ms Riplinger or Sue Hemphill at Scout Island Nature Centre, 1305A Borland Rd, Williams Lake BC V2G 5K5

Or fill out an electronic version and email it to Sue      shemphill at xplornet.com