Ashleigh's PCSC Experience

      

            My experience working with the Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition included various things. I have worked with transplanting, nursery planting, and fish flinging. I have done transplanting a few times the places where I have done this are mainly in locations near water where a bridge was put in, like Christmas Creek. The work I did there with the PCSC group was laying straw down and planting grass seed and transplanting moss and ferns. The hay is to protect the grass seed from being eaten by birds or other small forest dwelling animals. I have had many different experiences and learned various things. Nursery planting I can recall doing once in my whole experience with the salmon coalition program and what I did was plant nursery raised trees. I believe this was at Christmas Creek as well. Fish flinging I have done about three times and fish flinging is when you fling fish into creeks for nutrients enhancement.

          I have also done community service as well cleaning up trash from the sides of the street and out of the irrigation ditches. We did that to help clear the path way for little fishes to swim through to migrate. Another experience I share with the Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition is going to the fish hatchery and collecting fish and hitting the fish on the head and transporting them over to the filleting area so we can fillet them and bag them up for the food bank. And I personally really enjoyed that because I thought that is was really neat how that process happened. Filleting the fish had to be my most favorite experience I had with the PCSC. I also had experience with making a damaged area look more natural by pulling broken branches and stuff like that together for a more natural look. 

          I have learned the differences between transplanting and nursery planting. Transplanting is simply moving plants from one location to another and nursery planting is planting plants that have been raised in a nursery and prepared for planting in a certain location. I have learned that fish carcasses are good for nutrients enhancement. I have enjoyed my time with the salmon coalition this year I have learned many things and that is my experience with the Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition.