{"id":32845,"date":"2013-08-20T12:14:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T19:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=32845"},"modified":"2013-08-21T13:04:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T20:04:31","slug":"final-thoughts-from-fairbanks-ak-or-id-like-to-thank-the-academy-and-other-sentiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=32845","title":{"rendered":"Final Thoughts from Fairbanks, AK, or &#8220;I&#8217;d like to thank the Academy&#8230;&#8221; and other Sentiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32848\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?attachment_id=32848\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32848\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32848\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32848\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pinnell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pinnell.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pinnell-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pinnell-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pinnell-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alaska fieldwork is the best fieldwork: Invasive plant survey trip on the Pinnell Mountain Trail.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Loyal readers: as I sit here on the 25<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of my birth, reflecting on my summer as a Conservation and Land Management Intern for this, my final CLM Blog entry, I am consumed by a single and pervasive thought: this was the greatest summer of my entire life!!!<\/p>\n<p>Innumerable fruits of my CLM experience; how shall I count thee? I gained tremendous insights into the nature of governmental conservation careers. I gleaned an intimate knowledge of the Taiga Biome, a region nearly entirely unknown to me a year ago.\u00a0 I ascertained a much greater proficiency in many facets of botany, thanks to my mentor\u2019s wealth of knowledge of the Alaskan flora. For all of these things, I am grateful. However, the single most wonderful outcome of my CLM Internship surely must be\u2026 graduate school! Thanks largely to experience and connections garnished through this program, this fall I will be beginning a MS in Biology, with a focus on entomology and systematics, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32847\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?attachment_id=32847\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32847\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32847\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32847\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/998941_10200857488212805_1577043240_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/998941_10200857488212805_1577043240_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/998941_10200857488212805_1577043240_n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alaska fieldwork is the best fieldwork part 2: Posing in front of an abandoned cabin on an invasive plant survey float trip of the Fortymile River.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After years of unrequited applications and inquiries, I finally feel that the career path I have envisioned for so long has been realized, and I will never forget the CLM Program&#8217;s key role in making it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Signing off, for the last time, from the BLM District Office in Fairbanks, AK.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for being awesome, everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your stick on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on keepin\u2019 on.<\/p>\n<p>Au revoir!<\/p>\n<p>-Logan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loyal readers: as I sit here on the 25th anniversary of my birth, reflecting on my summer as a Conservation and Land Management Intern for this, my final CLM Blog entry, I am consumed by a single and pervasive thought: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=32845\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32845"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33165,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32845\/revisions\/33165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}