Ashton's Plan!

My name is Ashton Chastain I worked with the PCSC (Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition) to make up a credit. Now I am a Semester 2 intern. I will be working with the PCSC again this semester. Kody Hansen, Caleb Adams, and I will be going around Forks and putting plaques on all the storm drains that go to streams to tell people to not throw trash in them. I will be keeping up on the blog and after each week is over I will be posting about what we got accomplished that week and what we are planning for the next.

Ashton Warner Creek

Today we headed to Warner creek to clean the creek up. We met at the office and signed in, and then we headed to the shed and got waders and gloves. Four of us suited up in waders and headed into the creek. The rest were up walking along grabbing garbage off the bank and getting garbage we piled up for them. The guys in the creek started where Warner creek merged with mill creek to become mill creek from there we headed up stream and cleaned up every scrap of garbage along the way. We crawled under vaults to check for garbage under those. We followed the creek until it went under highway 101 then we cleaned up and took our gear back and signed up for the day.

Ashton Nutrient Enhancement

Today we were headed out to the Sul-Duc fish hatchery. We all loaded up into the cars and headed out we arrived at the hatchery and helped load the touts of dead fish into the trucks. WE split in half one group following one truck the other group following the other truck. We headed out to the north fork of the callawah to dump the dead fish in the river. We do this to spread the fishes nutrients back into the streams where they would naturally die. This provides vital nutrients to the plants and animals of our ecosystem. Once we where done there we headed back to town to finish the day up and sign out.

Ashton Christmas Creek Phase 3

Today while working with the salmon coalition. We arrived at 2:30 and we all signed in and got briefed on what the day would consist of. We were headed out to Christmas creek phase 3. We all loaded up into the vehicles and got tools for the day these tools consisted of Pulaski, shovels, and axes. We arrived at Christmas creek and got split up into teams, some of us were out collecting branches and moss the others digging up ferns and spreading grass and hay throughout the project site. We do this to help the recently excavated ground stabilize and not slide into the creek or drop the newly installed bridge