Bring the whole family to learn about skunks through arts and crafts, games, stories and more. Come dressed as your favorite animal and make a musical instrument for an afternoon parade. Hear the winners of our Tall Tale Contest tell their stories about “Why Lamprey Has So Many Teeth?” Refreshments served.

2007 - 08 Tall Tale Audio Recordings
Coloring Activity - Tall Tale Art Winner - 1^st Place
Coloring Activity - Tall Tale Art Winner - 2^nd Place

Sunday April 27^th, 2008
2:00 - 4:00pm
Parade begins at 3:30pm

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Awards and Readings:

2007 Daryle Seil Tall Tale Contest Winners

Winning stories are read and awards presented during the Friends of Tryon Creek State Park Earth Day Celebration 1st Place Prizes: $20 gift certificate to the Nature Store 2nd Place Prizes: $10 gift certificate to the Nature Store Honorable Mentions: $5 gift certificates to the Nature Store

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Tall Tale Art Exhibit & t-shirt design contest!

Submissions Open to All! Choose one or the other or both.

1. Enter our first t-shirt design contest! Draw a picture showing “Why Lamprey Has So Many Teeth” in black ink. Drawings must be no larger than 8 1/2” x 11”. The winning drawing will be featured on this summer’s Nature Day Camp t-shirt! One entry per child.

2. Tell the story of “Why Lamprey Has So Many Teeth” through art! Make an original work of art inspired by your story and your imagination. Please, no pieces larger than 11” x 17”. Selected submissions will be displayed at our annual Earth Day Celebration. Art pieces act to highlight stories and will not receive awards.

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2007 Photo Gallery - Park Parade, crafts and games

	Last year's celebration participants discovering Skunk. This year's theme will be Lamprey.
	Sharon Hawley attempting to organize last year's parade.
	Music in the woods.
	A young musician helping out the festivities.

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Lamprey Resources

Pacific lamprey (L. tridentata) are found along coastal areas from around Nome , AK down to California . They are an anadromous, parasitic species that are blue-black to dark brown on the upper body and a pale or silver lower body, while the fins are a dusky color. During spawning, they can appear to be reddish brown. Pacific lampreys are typically five to 28 inches long as adults.  They remain as ammocoetes for four to five years at which time they metamorphose and move to sea. They feed at sea for about a year, and then return to fresh water in the fall before spawning in the spring. (from Alaska Department of Fish and Game)

Did you Know?

• This is a creature that has been around, unchanged for a couple of hundred million years - long before T.rex was around and long after T. rex died out.
• Pacific lamprey are the second longest lived andromous fish species in the PNW - approximately 9-11 years from egg to spawning.
• Although they are very different than salmon, the lamprey's life cycle and behavoirs are essentially the same as those for salmon.
• Pacific lamprey are native to the Columbia River and evolved sympatrically with other species in the river, unlike the invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes region
• The Miller Lake lamprey was a species thought to have gone extinct, but was recently rediscovered in some small feeder streams to Miller Lake. It is one of the smallest parasitic lampreys in North America.

From Blaine Parker of Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Council

Useful Lamprey Websites

http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/fish/lampreys.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/basalfish/petro.html

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ODFW/NativeFish/Lamprey.htm

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/SPECIES/lamprey/index.html

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Contact Information

For more information, contact:
(503) 636-4398