My last blog post as a 2026 Fish and Feathers intern is a huge thank you to everyone who has supported, helped, guided, visited and believed in me throughout this entire experience! From school to Colorado to Cape Cod, I am so lucky to have...
Spoiler alert: it's a San Francisco Garter Snake!!Picture this: it’s a Friday afternoon, you’ve just clocked out of work for the week and you get the coolest and maybe most niche text of your life when your boss asks you if you have any interest...
My schedule has been jam packed with so many awesome wildlife activities. But what I appreciate about this position are the opportunities to shadow other teams and gain experience in projects outside of my role’s scope. Go touch grass, or any plant for that matter As...
Right now is an exciting time to be on Alcatraz. Despite it being a small island, it is bustling with visitors and wildlife activity. Spring and summer months are huge for the Alcatraz seabirds who arrive every year to nest and have their babies. With...
On the Natural Resources team, it seems as though every conversation starts and ends with timber. Much of the land in the Willamette National Forest remains a major timber-producing area, and the forest often uses revenue from commercial timber sales to finance other maintenance and...
By Alexis Saint GermainDuring April, I worked on the initial phases of several new land donation cases located in or around the Tahoe National Forest, the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, and the Eldorado National Forest. New donations are always exciting; we get to host...
I decided to write this about how beautiful nature is and how we can appreciate it even more in our communities. When going on a walk or a run, sometimes you may see birds or even some leaves on the ground from a tree. What you...
A week or two ago, I traveled to northwestern Michigan, near Traverse City. Our office is based in Lansing, so the drive took about three hours. (Our office is based in Lansing, the capital of Michigan, which is about 3 hours away) We were surveying and collecting...
A brown-belted bumble bee collecting pollen on a gray-headed coneflower. Hi Friends! Great things have happened in my first 2 weeks here in Minnesota! Bumble bees are buzzing at every corner, and Rusty Patched Bumblebee searches have commenced! I am currently in the office writing this blog,...
The Bees of course! The Twin Cities have treated me well so far. Being from Iowa originally, I was sure no place could top "Iowa Nice", yet I have been taken aback by how kind and welcoming people are here. Strangers smile at each other on...