These last couple of adventures have been a blast!!! I have seen Wolves, Black Bears, Elk, Antelope and even Bison all in the same day!! We were on hikes with the wolf monitoring teams in Yellowstone. We were in search of wolf clusters which are...
"Consider the sea turtle when you boat where they feed; injuries can be avoided if we just reduce our speed. Consider the sea turtle when you're at the beach; trash, holes and castles make the sea hard to reach. Consider the sea turtle when installing outdoor lights; they misguide hatchlings...
If you want to be precise and/or accurate you need to test, evaluate results, improve, and test again until you are satisfied with the outcome. This is basically what I have been doing the past two weeks. I had been developing a harness for a...
There's something about the National Park Service emblem and logo that just immediately allows people to trust whoever is wearing it. That's what I think I've gathered most so far during this internship. The Division of Resource Management and Science provides the expertise and sustainable management of Yosemite's...
Weather in the desert is wild, so wild that you can see snow in June! A few days ago, I woke up to snowfall outside my window and all across the entire park. I couldn't believe that only a week ago I was complaining about...
Standing tall as one of nation's most prominant symbols, is the bald eagle. While this bird has been delisted as an endangered species, it is still in a federal monitoring stage. Here at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park visitors and employees who have been around...
Wilderness management, a term famed for its oxymoronic nature, is a constant conversation within Rocky Mountain National Park. One of the most controversial examples of human intervention into the wild landscape and ecological processes within the Park is the Elk and Vegetation Management Plan. A...
Bees are pretty to look at and admire when you can see a big yellow and black bug on a flower. If you look closer at its characteristics, you may be fooled. When I caught my first bee this week, my supervisor Desi showed me...
The third week had come to an end, and Summer Connections is more than halfway done! The students got to explore two ecosystems this week: the meadow and the forested woodlands. A meadow is a field habitat vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants. Forested woodlands...
[caption id="attachment_2015" align="alignright" width="225"] Newly hatch giant mesquite bug clumped on a plant in the mesquite bosque[/caption] The Santa Cruz River supports a huge diversity of life in Arizona. Most of the ecosystem has been lost due to irrigational pumping and tree clearing, making this riparian habitat...