18 June 2021
A River In The Desert
Hello everyone, my name is Laura Plascencia. This internship has brought me from Central California to Parker, Arizona to do inventory and monitoring of the northern Mexican garter snake, which is a federally threatened species.…
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18 June 2021
Finding my Footing as a DFP Fellow
The first few weeks of my fellowship with Hispanic Access Foundation and the US Fish and Wildlife Service have been fast-paced. I have learned and am continuing to learn so much about the way federal…
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18 June 2021
Making the Best Out of a Remote Situation
I am about a month into my Directorate Fellowship Program (DFP) position, and I am still just as excited as I was when I started. I am starting to understand what accomplishments the Foreign Species…
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18 June 2021
First few weeks in External Affairs
My DFP project is with the USFWS External Affairs program in Region 2 (the Southwest Region) to create outreach materials for an upcoming proposed rule change to the management of Mexican Wolves. I’m currently a…
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17 June 2021
Beauty in the Borderlands
Since 1985, the historical Buenos Aires Ranch has operated under the management of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a national wildlife refuge. The ranch was purchased with a mandate to work towards the…
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17 June 2021
New Experiences and an Exciting Future
A lot has happened in the first few weeks of my internship at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Reserve and it feels surreal thinking about how I got to this place in my life. Ever since…
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