My main project at the Ankeny Hill Park is creating a large event that the kids at the Boys and Girls Club can participate in. The goal for the event is to make more people aware of our recently opened Nature Center and showcase its...
Hello! It's been quite some time since I have written a life update! Or talked about my internship! While working in the nation's capital, I have been able to walk into rooms that I have never imagined. Most recently, I had a blessed opportunity to...
Hi everyone, my name is Johanna Rivera and I am a Research & Education Intern for Monarch Joint Venture and Pollinator Posse through Environment for the Americas. With Monarch Joint Venture, part of my role is to support western monarch conservation by monitoring pollinator habitat...
On July 14 2023, EFTA Resource Assistants program (RAP) manager Katherine Shorten took some time off her vacations in Puerto Rico to visit the International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF) headquarters in Rio Piedras. It was a sunny Friday morning when Katherine arrived. She had...
Beautiful Colorado this past June Hello, all! It is hard to believe that it is already fall. Just in my own backyard, I can feel this transition in a pool, where outdoor swimming has given way to indoor swimming only. As noted by Johnny, my peers...
Diary of the Middle ForkThe 4.2 million acres of the Salmon-Challis National Forest are a piece of land that very much carries its own culture. This ranges from people who literally dedicated their lives to preserving the land and waters here to those who decided...
Now entering my 3rd month of my internship with the Forest Service. Yet still, this experience has been amazing. I had an opportunity to investigate a fire in Payson. Which was probably one of the most interesting I've done so far. We are still investigating...
It has been around four months since I started my internship with the US Forest Service, and it has been an amazing experience. Being a Resource Assistant Program intern has exposed me to different opportunities, and experiences. Even though my position is remotely with Grants...
Hi, my name is Janet Flores and I just graduated from Willamette University with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Latin American Studies with a minor in Global Studies. During my undergrad years, I did various research on the white-breasted slender-billed nuthatch bird, anna/rufous...
[caption id="attachment_43470" align="aligncenter" width="768"] My Cozy office got a chair upgrade! Good Afternoon, Everyone!Congrats to all the RAP 7 interns for doing their best work for another month. Now that September has arrived, work has been picking up and training has just finished for us on...