Fall Tagging Begins! Over the past two weeks we have gotten to tag about 13 adult monarchs here at Fort Hood! After a slow start to the fall season, it has been so exciting to get more hands-on experience with the monarchs as they make their...
As millions of migratory birds cross continents and oceans, people across the planet are preparing to mark World Migratory Bird Day 2026, with the first peak day for the year taking place on Saturday, 9 May 2026.This year’s campaign is guided by a simple but...
This month has been filled with so much and so much at the same time. There's no way around it. Every day, I walk to meet Anna to walk to the car to drive to the office to drive to the field site to plant...
Photo: Environmental Intern Dylan Garibaldi (Me!) Hello everyone! I’m wrapping up my Fall 2025 season with Environment for the Americas as a Monarch Research and Education Intern at Joint Base San Antonio – Camp Bullis. It’s hard to believe how quickly this season has passed and how...
it is getting colder and the time for office work is upon us ! Field season has officially ended with the colder weather and now it is time for data entry. I have been currently working on site records, site drawings, and inputting data into ArcGIS...
Each year, the Latino Heritage Internship Program (LHIP) brings emerging leaders into national parks across the country. This summer, our interns closed their experience with a powerful creative project that honors heritage, history, and cultural pride. What Is LHIP? The Latino Heritage Internship Program connects college students...
"Always remember that you can explain things for people. But you can't comprehend for them." -Shannon L. Alder, Motivational AuthorA grandmother in Ecuador. A federal government leader in Panama.A teenager in Jamaica.A state representative in Montana.A high-school student in Alberta. What does it take to convince these...
This summer at Rocky Mountain National Park as a Let's Go Birding Intern has been both a rewarding and a learning experience. Whether it was staffing the visitor centers, bird sits, bird walks, or presenting my amphitheater talk, I felt I was making a difference,...
We have all been waiting for the World Migratory Bird Day Main Event hosted by the Let's Go Birding interns, Irlanda Moreno and Connor Chilton, at Rocky Mountain National Park. With the success of our first WMBD event with REVEL, they returned to enjoy the...
Right now, an avian river flies above us each night as nature exhales billions of migratory birds from breeding grounds in Canada and the United States to the warmer climes of Mexico, Central America and the South American continent. It's the spectacle of fall migration...