Sweet Home Junior High students got a first-hand look at salmon spawning in the South Santiam River in a Salmon Watch field trip last week.
With the assistance of scientists and volunteers from Oregon State University, the U.S. Forest Service Sweet Home Ranger District and Hewlett-Packard, they also took water quality samples for testing and gathered data on the riparian zone and aquatic insects.
“Our objective was to watch salmon spawn,” science teacher Alice Eldredge…