17 June 2021
Saving New Mexico’s salamanders from the banks of the Chattahoochee
With the end of week four of my internship just within grasp, I’m starting to get an idea of what working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service would be like. The biologists at the…
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16 June 2021
Hello from New Mexico!
Hello everyone, my name is Brenda Ramirez, and I am part of the Directorate Fellowship Program (DFP) with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service! For this fellowship, I am working on the Quantitative Conservation Safeguards…
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22 September 2020
My Fellowship at U.S. Fish & Wildlife Comes to an End…but this isn’t Goodbye…
As I prepared my final program requirement, a presentation to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Conservation Banking Tracking Compliance - I reflected on the events of the last few months. Throughout the Directorate…
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22 September 2020
Conservation Banks Tracking Compliance: Protecting Land in Perpetuity
Conservation Banks: Protecting Land in Perpetuity The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Directorate Fellowship Project: I was responsible for monitoring compliance for conservation banks in Southern California. What is Conservation Banking? Conservation banks were designed…
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29 August 2020
My Farewell as a DFP Fellow
As my Fellowship is coming to a close I would like to say how grateful I am for having had an opportunity like this amidst a pandemic. I was able to meet so many great…
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28 August 2020
A Different Kind of Internship: Lessons and Final Thoughts
The entire year of 2020 has been a whirlwind filled with an unprecedented pandemic, economic uncertainty, protests in the name of racial disparity, and natural disasters. For many college students and recent graduates, this resulted…
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