Plumas Unified School District/Plumas National Forest Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement:Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement • March 5th, 2016
In October, students under direct supervision of forest botanists, planted over 400 sprouts of the rare Webber’s milkvetch (Astragalus webberi). Students from Greenville High School Greenhouse class propagated them from forest seed stock. Phase one of the Rich Fire Restoration Astragalus Webberi Habitat Enhancement Project was to grow, monitor, and plant the seeds. Prior to planting in the field, students hand-watered, labeled, and monitored the green- house stock. The students’ efforts, coupled with fortuitous rain, aided the restoration of these endangered plants on the Rich Fire landscape. The rare and endangered plants just might have a fighting chance at continued survival due to their efforts!
Plumas Unified School District/Lassen & Plumas National Forests Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement:Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement • March 5th, 2016
Students from Plumas Unified School District continue to assist Plumas NF Wildlife Biologists with carnivore monitoring. Several classes helped in the effort: Quincy HS Natural Resource and Biolo- gy Classes, Chester HS Biology Class, and Portola HS AP Environmental Science. The monitoring
Plumas Unified School District/Lassen & Plumas National Forests Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement:Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement • March 5th, 2016
Students from Plumas Unified School District continue helping Plumas NF Wildlife Biologists to protect and monitor avian species within the Storrie and Rich Fire areas. The students from Greenville High School Nat- ural Resource Class installed the bird nesting boxes in May. They had a little help from fellow students in the school’s Construction Technology Class that built the nesting boxes for the project. Wildlife biologists hope that some songbirds will take up temporary residence in the tiny houses: House wrens, Lazuli bunt- ing, Mountain bluebirds, and Western bluebirds. The class also learned that some birds such as the Lazuli bunting frequent recently burned areas for the food provided and cavity nesting
Plumas Unified School District/Lassen & Plumas National Forests Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement:Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement • June 11th, 2016
For a fourth year, students from Portola HS Fire Science Class learned about what it takes to be a wildland firefighter through participation in a “Basic 32 Wildland Firefighting” course. Firefighters from Plumas National Forest (NF) Beckwourth Ranger District and Beckwourth Volunteer Fire Department assisted with academic and field instruction.
Plumas Unified School District/Lassen & Plumas National Forests Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement:Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement • May 5th, 2020
Youth citizen scientist! Students from Plumas Unified School District took part in a Storrie Fire wildlife research project in October, 2011. The classes from Chester and Greenville Elementary School (5th/6th grades) helped Lassen NF Wildlife Biologists collect shrub leaves to determine protein, fat, and iron content for foraging deer. Students collected
Plumas Unified School District/Plumas National Forest Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement:Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement • December 1st, 2016
Teachers from the Plumas Unified School District (PUSD) had their passion for science ignited during a recent work- shop that introduced the new FireWorks Curriculum for the Sierra Nevada. Three years in the making, the new curricu- lum about the science of wildland fire was developed as a collaborative effort between PUSD, Missoula Fire Sciences Lab (of the Rocky Mountain Research Station), and the Plumas National Forest.
Plumas Unified School District/Lassen & Plumas National Forests Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement:Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement • October 8th, 2010
For the second year, students from Portola HS Fire Science Class learned about what it takes to be a wildland firefighter through participation in a “Basic 32 Wildland Firefighting” course. Firefighters from the Beckwourth Ranger District assisted with classroom instruction and field-based skills training along with Beckwourth Fire Department. Students learned about equipment, cutting fire
Plumas Unified School District/Lassen & Plumas National Forests Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement:Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement • October 8th, 2010
Students from Plumas Unified School District helped Plumas NF Wildlife Biologists monitor avian species within the Storrie and overlapping Chips Fire areas. The students from Greenville Junior High School Sci- ence Class installed the bird nesting boxes in April and returned in May to observe if any birds had taken up
Plumas Unified School District/Lassen & Plumas National Forests Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement:Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement • October 8th, 2010
Students from Plumas Unified School District helped the Plumas NF top the Hallsted Campground with the finishing touch of a new fence. Construction Technology classes from Chester and Greenville High Schools prepared lumber using mortise and tenon and installed the split rail fence along the campground property line. Students also learned what every good carpenter knows, that in-field adjustments are almost always necessary. They learned how to trouble-
Plumas Unified School District/Lassen & Plumas National Forests Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement:Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement • October 8th, 2010
Students from Plumas Unified School District may have just the “right stuff” that is needed for a unique interpretive project at Hallsted Campground! The Chester High School Graphic Arts and English classes took a fieldtrip to the re- cently renovated campground in the Feather River Canyon. The classes are invited to design and lay out interpretive
Plumas Unified School District/Lassen & Plumas National Forests Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement:Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement • October 8th, 2010
Students from Plumas Unified School District helped Plumas NF Wildlife Biologists with a carnivore monitoring project. Several classes helped in the effort: Quincy HS Natural Resource and Biology Classes, Chester HS Biology Class, and Portola HS AP Environmental Science. The monitoring
Plumas Unified School District/Lassen & Plumas National Forests Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement:Storrie Fire Restoration Agreement • October 8th, 2010
Students from Plumas Unified School District learned about soil and stream monitoring from Plumas NF Hydrologists. The students from Quincy High School AP Environmental Science took soil samples from a recent burned area (2012 Chips Fire) and measured stream flows in the North Fork of the Feather River.
