Hello blog readers! Earlier this month, I was able to attend the Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals Visitor Use Management Training at Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park! The training focused on the Visitor Use…

I have been working in the US Forest Service within the Mendocino National Forest for about two months now and it has been enlightening. I have been learning more in-depth about the Mendocino, and it…

As an Indigenous, we are taught at a young age to understand the meaning of respecting and caring for the land for it takes care of us, the children of mother earth. Our morals and…

Throughout my college career, I had the privilege of spending summers assisting in field work efforts for various research labs affiliated with my alma mater, the University of Vermont.

In June I started my Visitor and Community Engagement Internship with the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife refuge in Bloomington, MN.

As the hopeful optimist that I am, I’ve always held a glass half-full outlook on life. So it was only natural that when I came into my base site, the Inyo National Forest Supervisor’s Office,…