{"id":6945,"date":"2021-07-04T05:35:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T05:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2021-07-13T00:45:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T00:45:30","slug":"weekend-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/weekend-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s (short!) update is brought to you by Sara and Miranda after (what felt like) a long day of hiking to the top of Young Hill, a part of English Camp<\/a>, one of two National Historical Parks on San Juan Island, and waiting for the other half of the group to return from their canoe voyage. After spending the morning working on project development and turning in research proposals, we headed out to English Camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Making our way down to English Camp! Photograph by Sara Sarmiento Ruiz. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Upon arriving at English Camp, Science Director, Tim gave the students a brief history of English modifications to the area including houses, gardens, and introduced species. Making the trek along the North end of the island, we headed West afterwards up Young Hill. Read here to learn more about historical and current day Lummi experiences.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lummi totems placed in 2014 to commemorate cultural heritage of Garrison Bay. Photograph by Sara Sarmiento Ruiz. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Students spotted Douglas Firs (which are actually pines), Madrona trees, and one bald eagle! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Madrona Tree’s smooth trunk! Photograph by Miranda Winningham. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Group photo atop Young Hill. Photograph by Sara Sarmiento Ruiz. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the evening, our second Kaigani Canoe voyage group joined us once again at the dorms where we gathered for a meal of leftovers! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s (short!) update is brought to you by Sara and Miranda after (what felt like) a long day of hiking to the top of Young Hill, a part of English Camp, one of two National Historical Parks on San Juan Island, and waiting for the other half of the group to return from their canoe voyage. After spending the morning working on project development and turning in research proposals, we headed out to English Camp. Upon arriving at English Camp, Science Director, Tim gave the students a brief history of English modifications to the area including houses, gardens, and introduced species. Making the trek along the North end of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7018,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions\/7018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}