Sixty fifth-graders from the Assumption Saint Bridget School will be teaming up with the Adopt A Stream Foundation’s (AASF) Stream Team tomorrow to plant trees next to Bear Creek in Redmond at the Friendly Village senior citizen housing complex.

“This is going to be a fun day,” says AASF fish and wildlife manager C.K. Eidem. “We are going to teach 30 kids in the morning and 30 more in the afternoon why it is important to have a lot of trees next to salmon streams. Then, the kids are going to team up with us and plant trees that will become a new riparian zone.”

A riparian zone is the area of vegetation around a stream that affects the ecology of that stream. Trees provide shade that helps keep water temperature cool — salmon, steelhead and trout prefer temperatures in the low 50s (Fahrenheit).

Eidem said another cool feature of this event is that the trees that will be planted are live Christmas trees that AASF acquired in 2012.