2025 Part 1, what a roller coaster! Despite the year starting off with a lot of office work, there have been SO many opportunities for field work! The highlight was definitely bird banding Rosey-finch birds at Alta Ski Resort! The banding allows biologist to better...

31 May, 2025 /

Our first snow of the season came this week in northern Minnesota! November 25th. It came during the night so I got to wake up to a winter wonderland. I'll admit, it's not as exciting as back in Georgia when we would get a "snow day"...

03 January, 2025 /

Hi everyone! Alexander reporting for my fifth month with the RAP program. Work has been a bit of a blur for me. Arwen, my pup that I have had since after Hurricane Maria 2017 has passed away. One week we were doing our early morning...

25 November, 2024 /

Hi everyone! Alexander reporting from what is my half-year mark with the RAP program and with the Planning Service Center. Firstly I want to introduce everyone to Faye. I know I spoke about losing Arwen in the last blog and it still hurts. I do...

25 November, 2024 /

The month of October came fast and went just as fast, which means I need to take advantage of as many field opportunities as I can. Some of the highlights this month have included a tree identification course of the most common trees that you’d...

04 November, 2024 /

It’s the end of my internship and I feel phenomenal knowing I’ve done so much. I’ve gotten to the point of my project where I can do vehicle tracking on nearly every type of applicable cars for the campsite. I set up my other project...

30 October, 2024 /

It's a lovely time of year. Everything outside is so crispy and and colorful. Peak fall foliage here in northeast Minnesota was at the beginning of October, and my friends from work and I took a fun little day trip to the local ski resort...

30 October, 2024 /

The month of September was filled with lots of exciting opportunities to learn and grow. I was first able to participate in a Climate Adaptation Workshop for a ski area expansion project in Brian Head, UT. This gave me a good understanding of climate impacts...

15 October, 2024 /

The Pine River in the Weminuche Wilderness. For this field monitoring trip, we went into the Weminuche Wilderness via the Pine River Trail. There were just three of us, my supervisor, my dog Lucci, and me. We headed in to do field monitoring on several hunting...

26 September, 2024 /
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