Day 6: Thursday, July 11.


Day 6 : Thursday, July 11.

    Today before heading to Bend we did a trip to Timber site East 2017-2019 in Warm Springs. Claude Smith a timber sales management showed us how to calculate the log sale and how much commission the tribe gets for its timber. Nothing of timber is lost, the bad timber is made into paper and the Bark is use in landscaping. Most of the people who work in timber are between 40 and 60. Some of the machinery use to cut down trees are timbro and skidder. One cuts the trees and the other gathers and put the timber in a pile. Yvette, another sales manager told us a very inspiring personal story. Her story inspired me to never give up no matter how low you are in life. After a day in the forest we headed to Twanat Museum. There, some Native American elders told us stories and struggles they still face on food gathering which is been damage by commercial sale, huckleberry for example.


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