Education and Outreach

Oroville Elementary School

For the last few years UCRFEG has partnered with the Oroville Elementary School and worked with a 5th grade class to provide fisheries education in the classroom, as well as support fisheries education field trips. Funding was provided to OES to assist with transportation costs associated with visiting a local dam and picking up the fish eggs that are used in the classroom. The students grow fish in the classroom, observe their growth, and then release the fish into the wild. This partnership and program provide education and outreach that might not otherwise we obtained.

 

Tonasket Elementary School

UCRFEG has partnered with the Tonasket Elementary School and worked with a 3rd grade class to provide fisheries education in the classroom. Supplies were provided for the students to grow fish in the classroom, observe their growth, and then release the fish into the wild. The students also learned about water quality and hardness through the US Forest Service on a field trip to a local stream where they were able to perform water quality tests hands on. This partnership and program provide education and outreach that might not otherwise we obtained.

 

Leavenworth Salmon Festival

In 2009 the UCRFEG was able to partner with the Colville Confederated Tribes (CCT) to provide a cost share funding opportunity for several school districts to attend the Leavenworth Salmon Festival. Those districts were able to have the transportation costs for the students covered by UCRFEG and CCT. Tonasket Elementary School, Oroville Elementary School, and the Pascal Sherman Indian School.