04 September 2024
Plant Association Training in Arizona
I recently attended the 2024 Plant Association Training in Arizona on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest and on White Mountain Apache tribal land. The class was incredibly informative, and I learned to identify a ton of…
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02 August 2024
Recreation and Animal Surveys
The last two months of working in the Coronado National Forest were remarkable. With the end of the fire season and the start of the monsoons creeping up, everyone in the fire crew was either…
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28 June 2024
Inspection Season is Upon Us
Howdy y’all, I have completed 6 months of my assistantship and still enjoying all that I have been able to do. In the pasted two months I have been a part of several ongoing and…
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08 June 2024
Survey, Heat, Fire, and a Continuation of Passion!
Work as an Archaeologist on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest continues to be mighty interesting as we move from scanning Forest Service records and boxing for submission to the National Archives, to being quite active in…
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13 January 2023
Last Blog (For Now)
Next week is my last week in Colorado, and I am truly going to miss the connections here and the beautiful landscapes I woke up to every morning. Yet, I know that being closer to…
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05 December 2022
From the Files to the Field
Hello MANO blog readers! Sadly, this will be my last blog post. Through the Resource Assistants Program, I have completed 960 hours of service with the US Forest Service over the last 6 months. In…
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