{"id":8732,"date":"2025-08-04T00:04:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/?p=8732"},"modified":"2025-08-04T00:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:05:01","slug":"day-8-land-bank-conservation-college-chat-with-ice-cream-excursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/day-8-land-bank-conservation-college-chat-with-ice-cream-excursion\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 8: Land Bank Conservation & College Chat with Ice Cream Excursion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: Chloe B, Kelly, Sophia, Mika<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This morning, we went to the Land Banks<\/a>‘ Zylstra Preserve and met with Shauna and Julia, members of the San Juan Island Conservation Corps, who helped us to remove the invasive teasels, which are European native weeds that outcompete the native species. They introduced us to the Beaver Dam Analogs (BDAs) that they recently constructed, being the first on San Juan Island. These man-made dams, mimicking beaver dams, function to slow down river flow downstream to the nearby False Bay, in hopes of improving water quality over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo credits: Bryce. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After a quick lunch break, we listened to a presentation from Caroline, utilizing her experience as a college counselor, about colleges and the first steps in the search and exploration for the right college. We talked about the importance of academics, location, culture, experience, reputation, and costs, covering almost any prospective topic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo credits: Sophia <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After the presentation, we loaded into the vans and took off for Roche Harbor, today’s use of our recreation time. Here we went to the ice cream shop, where Caroline generously treated all of us to ice cream! With our ice cream in hand, we walked around the resort, through shops, and around the marina. Then, Cara beat everyone in bocce ball, and on the walk back to the vans, we encountered an adorable and huge Pyrenees puppy. We headed back to the dorms for our afternoon jobs, taking a quick ukulele break to sing “Lava” with Cara. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo credits: Kelly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As of right now, we are all super excited for our guest of the night, Dr. Sandy Wyllie-Echeverria,<\/a> to discuss sea and eel grasses. On the menu tonight is leftovers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Chloe B, Kelly, Sophia, Mika This morning, we went to the Land Banks‘ Zylstra Preserve and met with Shauna and Julia, members of the San Juan Island Conservation Corps, who helped us to remove the invasive teasels, which are European native weeds that outcompete the native species. They introduced us to the Beaver Dam Analogs (BDAs) that they recently constructed, being the first on San Juan Island. These man-made dams, mimicking beaver dams, function to slow down river flow downstream to the nearby False Bay, in hopes of improving water quality over time. After a quick lunch break, we listened to a presentation from Caroline, utilizing her experience as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"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\/8732"}],"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\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8736,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions\/8736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}