An end to All Good Things

This week marks the end of my internship with SOS/CLM. I am tying up my paperwork. My seeds are at the Bend Seed Extractory and my herbarium specimens will be glued and mailed by Wednesday.

Unlike many of the interns with CLM this summer I might be considered in the autumn of my life. With two degrees under my belt and a few grey hairs coloring my head, I am looking at this summer as a building block to my next level of interest. While many of you are starting your careers, I am building on the last one as I consider a B.S. in botany or ecology to add to my BA and MA.
I truly, madly enjoyed every day of my time in the field looking at new landscapes and cementing my appreciations of the Central Oregon landscape. My counsel to those of you starting your careers is to look at the ecological perspective, and combine your botany with another science or comprehensive ecosystem perspective. Be flexible and versatile. Be persistent. The landscape will be there. It is a stark landscape filled with a sense of possibility.