Bishop Paiute Firstbloom Program

07/26/2021

Our friends in Yosemite are hosting a Black Oak Tribal Stewardship project this week, on Wednesday July 28th. Tribal members and family units who may want to visit and spend some time helping the black oaks can contact Irene Vasquez, Yosemite Cultural Ecologist and long-time friend of Firstbloom at 209.379.3293.

07/21/2021

The 2021 Environmental Youth Camp is happening next week and registration is open! Register online using this link https://fs29.formsite.com/D4fU8u/yeny6egxyx/index.html

07/13/2021

Here is an interesting virtual opportunity with the USFS for a student with geospatial experience! Please share with anyone you think might be interested.

Browse available virtual internships for U.S. agencies.

06/17/2021

With the kids out of school for the summer, we thought we would share some activities they can do at home to help in the garden and learn about the beneficial bugs in it! Check it out this fun lesson from KidsGardening.orghttps://kidsgardening.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Love-For-Bugs-lesson.pdf

06/07/2021

Our crew is conducting our weekly water quality monitoring and picking up trash at creek sites this morning. If you see any areas with pollution, please do not hesitate to call the Tribe's Environmental Management Office and report the situation. Main office # 873-3584 and ask for Environmental.

06/03/2021

There are some "old" Firstbloomers graduating high school and moving on from eighth grade this week. These kids have been through a lot over the past year, but hopefully it prepares them for the challenges to come. Watch out world, here they come!

05/26/2021

Reminder that we all need to help keep the Reservation and our precious resources clean 💪 Imagine if everyone picked up just one bag of trash this weekend! Be safe, have fun, and be awesome 🤓🥳🤩

05/19/2021

It looks like there are still a few spots available for this year's Eastern Sierra Youth Outdoor Program, don't let them get away! Please share with any teens who love being with a group of their peers in the outdoors

The program is led and facilitated by experienced outdoor education professionals with many years of experience. Todd Vogel, Eastside Sports co – owner, has spent over 25 years working as a professional mountain guide and outdoor educator. All other staff are people with similar experience. SKILLS...

04/15/2021

Bishop Paiute community members interested in growing gardens can request seeds from the Tribe's Food Sovereignty Program and pick them up this Saturday at the Cultural Center as we start our week of Earth Day activities. Make sure to sign up using this link or your seeds won't be ready! https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSe8X6DtouEd.../viewform
If you need to reach out to Tony, his email is incorrect on the flyer. This is correct: [email protected]

04/14/2021

This is an awesome opportunity for a local, young adult! Manzanar National Historic Site is looking to a Community Volunteer Ambassador. It comes with a weekly stipend and a chunk of change in the form of an AmeriCorps Award! Once completed the individual will be qualified to receive a Public Lands Corps hiring authority, that means priority when applying for other positions within the NPS and other land management partners. Do you know any local youth that may be interested? If so, please share this information. They can learn more about the program here https://www.cvainternships.org/

04/08/2021

It's like a reveal party...for a lot of really smart scientists!!!

"When hundreds of physicists gathered on a Zoom call in late February to discuss their experiment’s results, none of them knew what they had found. Like doctors in a clinical trial, the researchers at the Muon g-2 experiment blinded their data, concealing a single variable that prevented them from being biased about or knowing—for years—what the information they were working with actually meant.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/long-awaited-muon-measurement-boosts-evidence-for-new-physics/
But when the data were unveiled over Zoom, the physicists knew the wait had been worth it: their results are further evidence that new physics is hiding in muons, the bulkier cousins of electrons. “That was the point at which we knew the results. Until then we had no idea,” says Rebecca Chislett, a physicist at University College London, who is part of the Muon g-2 collaboration. “It was exciting and nerve-wracking and a bit of a relief.”"

Initial data from the Muon g-2 experiment have excited particle physicists searching for undiscovered subatomic particles and forces