BLM Botanist Raymond Brinkerhoff uses an interactive-3D Watershed model to teach campers about plants and to demonstrate the impacts humans have on our water sources. 8-3-19. 190803-BLM-GSENM-Hercher-IMG_7108. Photo by BLM Public Affairs Specialist David Hercher.
Camp Kwiyamuntsi is a STEM and culture camp for Southern Paiute youth. This year, middle school students from five bands came together for four days of fun and learning on ancestral homelands now managed by federal agencies. Campers learned about natural resources management from western and tribal perspectives. Learning stations included wildlife biology, archaeology, wilderness survival, hydrology, astronomy, ethnobotany and fire ecology with emphases on native language, traditional use, education and career paths. Photo taken Aug. 2, 2019, by Kevin Abel, Dixie National Forest. Credit the Dixie National Forest.
By: Kevin S. Abel
Cecila Long, of the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, teaches campers about traditional medicinal uses for various every-day plants found in the forest. 190803-BLM-GSENM-Hercher-IMG_7165. Photo by BLM Public Affairs Specialist David Hercher.
During the wildlife session of Camp Kwiyamuntsi, Greg Anderson, of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, discussed various hunting and field dressing techniques with the campers. Pictured here, Greg shows campers how to field-dress a rabbit without using any tools. 8-2-19. 190802-BLM-GSENM-Hercher-IMG_0980. Photo by BLM Public Affairs Specialist David Hercher.
During the wildlife session of Camp Kwiyamuntsi, campers made assimilated animal tracks and fish fossils using molds for the tracks and life-like rubber fish replicas rubbed in ink for the fossils. 8-2-19. 190802-BLM-GSENM-Hercher-IMG_7063. Photo by BLM Public Affairs Specialist David Hercher.
Camp Kwiyamuntsi 2019 located on the North Kaibab Ranger District, Kaibab National Forest, August 1-4, 2019. 8-1-19. IMG_6861. Photo by BLM Public Affairs Specialist David Hercher.
Camp Kwiyamuntsi is a STEM and culture camp for Southern Paiute youth. This year, middle school students from five bands came together for four days of fun and learning on ancestral homelands now managed by federal agencies. Campers learned about natural resources management from western and tribal perspectives. Learning stations included wildlife biology, archaeology, wilderness survival, hydrology, astronomy, ethnobotany and fire ecology with emphases on native language, traditional use, education and career paths. Photo taken Aug. 2, 2019, by Kevin Abel, Dixie National Forest. Credit the Dixie National Forest.
By: Kevin S. Abel
Camp Kwiyamuntsi is a STEM and culture camp for Southern Paiute youth. This year, middle school students from five bands came together for four days of fun and learning on ancestral homelands now managed by federal agencies. Campers learned about natural resources management from western and tribal perspectives. Learning stations included wildlife biology, archaeology, wilderness survival, hydrology, astronomy, ethnobotany and fire ecology with emphases on native language, traditional use, education and career paths. Photo taken Aug. 2, 2019, by Kevin Abel, Dixie National Forest. Credit the Dixie National Forest.
By: Kevin S. Abel