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Tule Lake High School students must travel by bus for several hours on U.S. Forest Service roads to reach Mowitz Creek where they are helping with monitoring of stream conditions after changes in management of grazing.


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A group of Tule Lake High School biology students use kick nets and sweep nets along Mowitz Creek to collect aquatic invertebrates.


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Socorro uses a small dip net for sampling aquatic invertebrates on Mowitz Creek.


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Some students at right receive instructions from teacher Kirk Heims while Amanda and Lisa begin searching for aquatic invertebrates.


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David, Dillon and Paul sample soils in the fore ground while another Tule High School biology student samples terrestrial insects with a sweep net.


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Students focus intently on plant specimen in study of forage potential and plant species in the riparian zone.


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Tule High School biology students Ben, Monica and Jessie collect specimens along a plant transect in the riparian zone of Mowitz Creek. Study design for the plant survey was assisted by Brad Reid of the Doublehead Ranger District of the Modoc National Forest.


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Tule High School biology students tour range lands on Modoc National Forest that have recently been burned in a wildfire.