Kwiyamuntsi Youth Camp: Students visit with elders on the North Rim
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Students Visit With Elders On The North Rim
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.
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.
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.
Every year, the Dixie National Forest hosts the Kwiyamuntsi Youth Camp. This year's camp took place on the North Kaibab Ranger District of the Kaibab National Forest. During the camp, tribal elders from several bands of Paiute tribes and land management specialists from Kaibab National Forest, Bryce Canyon National Park, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Zion National Park, Pipe Springs National Monument, BLM-Utah and Southern Utah University teamed up with the Dixie National Forest to teach tribal youth about a variety of land management topics including geology, wildlife management, hydrology, fuels management, archaeology, timber management, botany, geocaching and astronomy.
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