01 December 2022
Philly Nature Kids
John Heinz NWR has a team of education specialists who connect with the local schools in Southwest Philadelphia. If they aren’t going into the classrooms to teach a lesson about biology, nature, and wildlife, the…
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21 November 2022
Learning and Teaching
Hello MANO blog! For my penultimate blog post, I would like to tell you all about the professional development projects I’ve done in the last 5 and a half months of my internship. First, I…
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17 November 2022
Shift: Connecting with myself and the outdoors
The SHIFT conference was an exciting part of the start of my fellowship. This conference was based in Fort Collins, Colorado in mid-October, focusing on the positive preventative effects of equitable access to nature. As…
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14 November 2022
Happy Halloween!
My background is in geology and even though my current position does not have as much to do with my background, this fellowship has still given me the opportunity to participate in field work when…
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11 November 2022
Exploring Albuqurque and The State of New Mexiico
The year has come almost full circle. The change to cooler temperatures and autumn-colored leaves makes me reminiscence of when I first arrived in Albuquerque, NM in the late part of January of this year.…
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09 November 2022
Lessons learned Indoors
As everyone settles in for the colder months out on the field, the offices of the Forest Service come to life. The Washington Office is a very good example of this. Once there is less…
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