When I first applied to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Directorate Fellows Program (USFWS DFP), COVID-19 had been raging for about 9 months in the U.S. There was still a lot of uncertainty and fear,…

Hello! Allow me to introduce myself: I am a 3rd year Ph.D. candidate from Mississippi, and I am excited to be part of the 2021 Cohort of the USFWS Directorate Fellows Program (DFP)! This summer,…

Ahoy! I’m Liz Renner and I’m a freshwater fisheries ecologist and Ph.D. candidate at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. My dissertation research in collaboration with the Kansas Dept. of Wildlife & Parks examines the…

Greetings! My name is Nirav, and this summer, I started my DFP fellowship position with the Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office, located in Legacy Region 8 of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). I…

I am about a month into my Directorate Fellowship Program (DFP) position, and I am still just as excited as I was when I started. I am starting to understand what accomplishments the Foreign Species…

My DFP project is with the USFWS External Affairs program in Region 2 (the Southwest Region) to create outreach materials for an upcoming proposed rule change to the management of Mexican Wolves. I’m currently a…