Monday, April 28, 2008

Trees & Fish

We had a busy day on Saturday. We started off early meeting with the Wolf cub scouts at the San Gabriel Education Center (up Azusa canyon). We participated in the San Gabriel Valley Watershed Restoration project. Our job was planting tree starts. The boys did a great job and worked hard to do their best planting (only 1 out of every 10 will grow into a mature tree).

Shane and Jared planting our little trees.
After planting our little tree in milk cartons we wheel barreled them over to the nursery and lined them up with the others.

After helping with the restoration project we drove up the canyon about a mile to the West Fork of the San Gabriel River to do some fishing. The boys were all very excited! We hiked up the river almost 1 mile and found a nice shady spot. No one had any luck there, only a few nibbles.
The rest of our group had to leave at noon, but of course Shane could not be skunked. We hiked a few hundred yards up river, just the 3 of us. Shane caught 5 fish.
Here is Jared with the first catch. It was pretty small, but the perfect size for the little area he made in the river to hold the fish.

This is my bran-new fishing pole (PINK). Shane says its not pink, its salmon (that's what he says to make him feel better when he uses it).
Here is Shane's prize catch of the day, caught with my "salmon" (pink) pole!
To see more pictures of our day with the cub scouts, check out our den blog.

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