{"id":10153,"date":"2018-12-19T18:55:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T18:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=10153"},"modified":"2018-12-19T18:55:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T18:55:26","slug":"local-students-step-up-to-help-wildlife-and-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/19\/local-students-step-up-to-help-wildlife-and-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Students Step Up to Help Wildlife And Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Weekly Sun Staff<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"
Photo courtesy of Wood River Land Trust<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A team of eighth and ninth graders at The Sage School in Hailey recently teamed up with the Wood River Land Trust (WRLT) to help remove old barbed-wire fencing found throughout the region that endangers wildlife and dogs.<\/p>\n

After seeing so much old fencing in the Valley, the group reached out to the Land Trust to see if there were any places they could help remove these dangers. The WRLT suggested the group tackle the newly opened Quigley Canyon easement, which is littered with barbed wire that challenges and even harms wildlife like deer and elk and the occasional dog out for a walk with its owner.<\/p>\n

Earlier this fall, The Sage School Fence Removal Team began to tackle this major project.<\/p>\n

\"\"
Photo courtesy of Wood River Land Trust<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once a week, the students have been going out in the sun or snow to remove hundreds of yards of barbed wire. The students have found the labor-intensive work to be not only impactful, but rewarding.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is strangely satisfying, and you know what you\u2019re doing is for a good cause,\u201d said ninth-grader Maddox Nickum.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really fun,\u201d said ninth-grader Lila Fenn. \u201cYou feel kind of powerful and you sure know you\u2019re making a difference for migrating animals crossing the Valley floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n

I loved the teamwork and seeing that we\u2019re making definite progress,\u201d said ninth-grader Nora Blamires.<\/p>\n

The work has included using lopers to clear sagebrush from buried wire, wire cutters to remove the long strands between fenceposts, and nippers to untwist the loops that wrap the wires to the vertical posts.<\/p>\n

\n

\"\"
Photo courtesy of Wood River Land Trust<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s terrific what the students are doing,\u201d said Jim Keating of the Blaine County Recreation District, one of the partners involved in the Quigley Canyon easement. \u201cIt\u2019s inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the work on the ground will slow down during the winter months, the team will use this time to plan for more community involvement once the snow starts melting.<\/p>\n

They are planning weekly Business Volunteer Days and will also hold a Community Barbed Wire Removal Day late next spring, as well. They have been recycling much of the old barbed-wire fencing into wreaths that will be given to those who help support this important mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really excited about this project and its possibilities,\u201d said Cameron Packer, stewardship coordinator for the WRLT. \u201cWe\u2019re very impressed with this team of students for making this happen. They\u2019re making a big and positive impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

To find out more about the project, contact the Wood River Land Trust at (208) 788-3947 or Nancy Linscott at The Sage School at (208) 788-0120.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Weekly Sun Staff A team of eighth and ninth graders at The Sage School in Hailey recently teamed up with the Wood River Land Trust (WRLT) to help remove old barbed-wire fencing found throughout the region that endangers wildlife and dogs. After seeing so much old fencing in the Valley, the group reached out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,32,36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment-2","8":"category-news","9":"category-schools","10":"category-slider"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}