Hello All! I have now traveled from Indiana and been staying here in Buffalo, WY for the past 2 weeks. I can tell you already, I would not mind staying here for quite some time.  The town here is wonderful, full of extremely welcoming people and the area is great. Directly to the east are the high plains, vast sagebrush lands where most of my work is. Not 20 minutes to the west is the Bighorn National Forest, mountains that we have already explored a few times. I have never been in such a small town where there is also so much to do.  We enjoyed our first bluegrass jam session just the other night, and plan on many many more.

I’m working as a range intern for the Buffalo Field Office.  I’ve already started learning to identify all the many grasses here, often without seed heads which is something I have never done before.  We’ve been monitoring grazing allotments in high priority areas, particularly sage grouse primary habitat.  I admit, I hadn’t expected to be sniffing bird scat; however, I was pleasantly surprised as sage grouse scat has the same aroma as sagebrush.  We were able to get a close sighting of a sharp-tailed grouse today, so hopefully a great visual of a sage grouse will be next!