Growing up, I used to volunteer at a farm down the road from my house that served as a therapeutic riding center that prided themselves in eliminating money as a barrier to access. I would…

  What can we learn from Identifying and Monitoring Hotspots? ‘Hotspot’ is a term that refers to a region of concern. From an ecological perspective this would be an area of high endemism with a…

We live in a data-obsessed society. Business, sports, politics, you name it, are increasingly reliant on copious amounts of quantitative metrics and analytics to drive investment and optimize decision making. The government is no different.…

I am just about halfway through my DFP and it feels like I just started. I am beginning to realize that this DFP position was the best opportunity that I could have hoped for when…

Why bats? That is the question I always got when I told people I really wanted this internship to work on bat conservation, along with some faces of disgust at the thought of bats. Honestly,…

When I was doing school assignments and research a couple of semesters ago, the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service was one of the resources that always made an appearance to me. The type of research…