Sean C. Morgan
Zach Sartin’s fourth-grade class at Oak Heights released a handful of surviving salmon fry into the South Santiam River Monday, Nov. 20, capping its involvement in this year’s egg-to-fry project.
Classrooms in the mid-Willamette Valley hatch some 20,000 Chinook salmon eggs for release into the rivers each year, and a similar program for rainbow trout involves 45 classrooms.
“I have about 75 teachers in my district,” said Karen Hans, a Salmon Trout…