Featured Image: Stack Rock trail in the Boise National Forest. As I touched upon in my previous blog, the first half of 2022 has been filled with more excitement, joy, and learning than I could have ever imagined. Personally, participating in the Resource Assistant program was...
Featured Image: Balsamorhiza sagittata (BASA) by the Columbia River Gorge. The past six months have been quite the unexpected adventure. After graduating from college, deferring graduate school, and taking an internship on the other side of the country in a state I had never before visited,...
Deschutes River. Photo by Jessica Irwin. Before deciding to embark on this journey of an internship, I knew close to nothing about Idaho. Besides the fact that potatoes grew here. Nearly everything about the climate and culture here is new and exciting. There is so...
As a Support Services Specialist, my overarching responsibility is to support the Boise RMRS Lab. This often varies depending on what the lab’s present needs are. Some days I spend in my office communicating via TEAMS and email with various people involved in MRDE, completing...
View of the Boise Ridge from the RMRS offices. The Boise Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) is located downtown in a building that additionally hosts a satellite campus of the University of Idaho and the Idaho Department of Water Resources. RMRS comprises two floors: one for...
Hi! I’m Paula Maria Silva. I was born in central New Jersey. Growing up in a state that is so densely populated and thus heavily degraded, my passion for conservation began at a young age. My family spent many summers in the Berkshires, in the mountains...