Don Perry's presentation at the November NRC meeting. He spoke about the Nisqually Salmon Camp that occurred in July 2014.

1. Nisqually Salmon Camp

2. Nisqually Salmon Camp
• What is Nisqually Salmon Camp?
• Goals of Nisqually Salmon Camp
• How does it work?
• Next Steps

3. What is Nisqually Salmon Camp?
• A collaborative effort between Nisqually
Summer Youth Program and the Nisqually
Natural Resources Department.
• 3-5 days of training and learning experiences,
during the first week of the Nisqually Indian
Tribe’s Summer Youth Program.

4. What is Nisqually Salmon Camp?
• Nisqually Salmon Camp was created to
address the underrepresentation of Native
Americans in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by
providing hands-on learning experiences for
students in the Nisqually Summer Youth
Program .

5. What is Nisqually Salmon Camp?
• Native Americans have lowest representation
in the sciences of all ethnic groups in the U.S.
• Dropout rate is among the highest of any
ethnic group in the U.S.
• A recent study showed that 7% of Native
youth dropped out of school compared with
2.7% for their non-native peers.

6. Goals of Nisqually Salmon Camp
• Promote careers in natural resources and
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
(STEM).
• Provide students with realistic field work
experience.
• Provide students hands-on learning
experiences with natural resources staff and
other professionals.
• Connect young people with nature via
technology.

7. How does it work?
• Students in the Nisqually Summer Youth
Program sign up for and participate in hands-on
activities, in the field, with Nisqually
Natural Resources Department staff and other
natural resources professionals.
• Students experience hands-on learning and
information collection, interacting with
Nisqually Natural Resources staff in a variety
of work projects and settings.

8. How does it work?
• Students become familiar with advanced
technology used in the field by shadowing
professionals in actual work settings.
• Activities include collecting benthic macro-invertebrates,
restoration planting survival
assessments, beach seining, determining
shellfish health, geocaching (GPS basics), fish
ID and biology, radio telemetry,
geomorphology, orienteering (use of compass
and maps), and more.

9. How does it work?
• Students receive North West Indian College
(NWIC) continuing education credit after
completing activities. CEU hours are used to
support professional development training, to
fulfill community service hours, and to
demonstrate participation in educational and
cultural activities.

10. Promote Careers in Natural
Resources
Discussing career opportunities at the Nisqually Reach
Nature Center

11. Provide Hands-on Experiences with
Natural Resources Professionals.
Daniel Hull, Reuben Chum, Mikayla Sison, Milan
Choke, Tandy Squally, Bill Kallappa, & Aaron David at
Nisqually Reach Nature Center.

12. Provide Hands-on Experiences with
Natural Resources Professionals.
Identifying and measuring juvenile fish

13. Provide Students with Realistic
Field Work Experience.
Pulling seine net on Ketron Island
& Anderson Island, and recording
fish sampling data.

14. Provide Students with Hands On
Learning Experiences
Assessing shellfish conditions at
the Nisqually Tribe’s 120 acre
Shellfish Farm, Henderson Inlet.

15. Provide Students with Hands on
Learning Experiences
Nisqually Shellfish Farm manager, Sue
Shotwell, discussing shellfish health with
students.

16. Provide Students with Hands on
Learning Experiences
Nisqually students and Nisqually Youth Center staff on the Nisqually Tribe’s
research vessel Hickson, with Dennis Lucia, Nisqually Marine Services,
Margaret Homerding, Shellfish Program Manager.

17. Provide Students with Hands on
Learning Experiences
Deploying a survey net from the Hickson to collect plankton samples

18. Provide Students with Hands on
Learning Experiences
Puget Sound Plankton salmples

19. Provide Students with Hands on
Learning Experiences
Nisqually divers
in action.
Salmon Camp students learn about
some specimens gathered from Puget
Sound (California Sea Cucumber, Moon
Snail, Kelp Crab, Starfish, Sculpin).

20. Provide Students with Hands on
Learning Experiences
Identifying Puget Sound aquatic life-forms

21. Provide Students with Hands on
Learning Experiences
Beach seining on Anderson Island

22. Provide Students with Hands on
Learning Experiences
Assessing and recording seine catch on Ketron Island

23. Provide Students with Hands on
Learning Experiences
Learning how to read a topographic map

24. Provide Students with Hands on
Learning Experiences
Nature Mapping
Establish a database of wildlife presence Learning fish anatomy and physiology
How do fish manage to stay afloat?

25. Connecting young people with
nature via technology
Collecting and analyzing benthic macro invertebrates (stream-bugs).

26. Connecting young people with
nature via technology
Radio Telemetry

27. Connecting young people with
nature via technology
Geocaching to Learn about GPS

28. Connecting young people with
nature via technology
Build a watershed…..
Learn geomorphology

29. Next Steps
• Continue to improve Nisqually Salmon Camp, by introducing
a variety of fun and informative learning activities for
students.
• Recruit more Nisqually Summer Program youth into
Salmon Camp activities.
• Recruit Nisqually students into the Stream Stewards
course.
• Track student academic choices over time.
Will Salmon Camp have an influence on those choices?

30. Questions ??
?