My time with EFTA is coming to an end. I am sad to be leaving all the great people and grateful of the experiences this internship provided me. With that said, I accepted a position within natural resource management (though not in the public sector)!! As...
Over this past month, one aspect of the USFS that I began to take an interest in is the Timber management. As a NEPA planner, many of my projects concern timber harvesting. I coordinate the stand by stand meetings among specialists where they discuss potential...
I feel as each month of this internship passes, time moves much more quickly. I still remember back in February, it felt like the weeks just dragged on. Now, I blink, and a month passes. My highlight for June is completely NEPA related. A couple months...
Every year, the Southern Appalachian Wilderness Stewards hosts a 2 weeklong conference called the Wilderness Skills Institute (WSI) at the Cradle of Forestry in the Pisgah National Forest. For those two weeks, you camp out in the forests and spend the days attending courses. There’s...
Who’s Joyce Kilmer? I don’t really know. What’s the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest? Well now let me tell you about that. As the US Forest Service would describe it, Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest is, “one of the Nation’s most impressive remnants of old-growth forest.” The forest is made up...
For the past three years, I attended the Southeast Environment and Recreation Research (SERR) Conference. And as the title explains, this conference gives university undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to spend 3 days together to discuss research proposals, research findings, and overall network with...
Hey EFTA friends! I am still reminiscing on the orientation week in New Mexico when I met so many of you! Since then, I began living and working in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. My RA position is an Environmental Planner and specifically,...
Hi Everyone! My name is Chase Perren and I am working as the Environmental Project Planner intern at the Asheville Regional Office in North Carolina. I am so excited to begin my journey with EFTA and the US Forest Service. I look forward to hearing...