Mount Si teens share elk science

It wasn’t a group you might expect to see together — students from Mount Si High School, fifth-graders from Snoqualmie Elementary School and officials from the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. But they met at Meadowbrook Farm Thursday and Friday, May 21 and 22, to teach and learn about elk in the Valley.

It wasn’t a group you might expect to see together — students from Mount Si High School, fifth-graders from Snoqualmie Elementary School and officials from the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. But they met at Meadowbrook Farm Thursday and Friday, May 21 and 22, to teach and learn about elk in the Valley.

The high school students acted as mentors for the fifth-graders, who learned about how to spot signs of elk, how scientists track elk and what an animal’s skull tells about how the animal lives.

The Group for Elk Management helped organize the event. The high school students are in Nick Kurka’s environmental science class.