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Interview with Mitchell Heynen - Outdoor Ed Camp ( DOC ) |
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| Source: | YFGA | Date: | November 1, 2003 | |
| Why did you apply to go to the YFGA Outdoor Education Camp? - I applied because I knew it would be a fun experience where I could do neat things and meet new people. It was all of those things. Tell me about someone new that you met at camp, and why you will remember him/her. - Alex Ban Bibber was the most memorable-I like him. He’s one of the famous hunters and he has good stories and taught us good stuff. He showed us how to tie a diamond hitch on a horse, (using a barrel instead of a real horse); we made overnight shelters with things around us like trees and moss, although we didn’t stay in one. What about the food at camp? What did you eat? - We ate everything, the food tasted good. We had steak, potatoes, spaghetti, hamburgers, hot dogs, juice, pop, water, cake, brownies and even ice cream. When we went on the 3 day hike we had good food. There was a good variety of everything, but we didn’t have any pizza. What activities did you like best? - My favorites were the rock climbing and the gun range. We used the new climbing wall instead of the rock gardens, and it is 32 feet tall. It is painted bright colors, and was not a scary experience as we had safety harnesses. Even Nansi, one of the instructors went up. I have just climbed with my friends before, but now that I have tried rock climbing this way, I would like to do more of it. -The gun range was fun too-we shot 12 gauge shotguns and .22’s, and also bow and arrows. We used skeet’s for the shotguns, silhouettes for the .22’s and Styrofoam animals for the bow and arrows. Balloons too-we used balloons for targets. If your friends ask your advice about applying for camp next year, what will you tell them? - I would tell them all to apply. It is a good experience, you are outdoors, you try new things, you meet new people, and it is a lot of fun! Caribou Essay By Mitch Heynen - I have chosen to write my essay on how the management techniques of the Southern Lakes Caribou Recovery Program have worked and how they could work on other species or herds. - The Southern Lakes Caribou Recovery Program is a unique example of management by the First Nations, government, biologists and the community coming together to study and protect the three Southern Lakes Caribou Herds. The goal of the Southern Lakes Caribou Recovery Program is to replenish the caribou themselves and sustain the herds. - The Southern Lakes Caribou Recovery Program involved six different First Nations who all agreed to a voluntary no hunting zone in the area of the Southern Lakes Caribou Herd. The no hunting law didn’t just apply to the caribou, but to all of the large game. The government and the First Nations together agreed to use traditional knowledge to help with the recovery program. - The Southern Lakes Caribou Recovery Program used the T.I.P.S. hotline to encourage people to call in with caribou sightings, including how many they saw, when they saw them and where they saw them. They also count the herd annually. This year the herd size was around 1200. The voluntary no hunting law meant that some of the First Nation people who relied on the caribou in the Southern Lakes would have to find a new food source. If the caribou recovery program is successful then people and other programs could use some of the management techniques the Southern Lakes Program used to recover other herds or species. - The Southern Lakes Caribou Recovery Program is an excellent example to the world of how people and caribou can co-exist. |
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