I cannot wrap my head around the fact that only 8 months ago, sitting in the concrete jungle of Quito, Ecuador, I had my first interview for the CLM internship and was referred to work with the National Park Service in Wrangell-St. Elias NP, AK. Fast forward to late October, I find myself\u00a0in Anchorage, snowboard in hand, anxiously waiting for snow to fall in the mountains. In the time interval between these two moments, my CLM internship both brought me to Alaska and provided me with professional skills important to my developing career. My personal “internship” was unlike any of the past, and certain job responsibilities forced us to grow professionally\u00a0and meet expectations within the resource department of a government agency.<\/p>\n
Skills I developed during this season will, with certainty, carry-over to future employment in natural resource management.<\/p>\n
Of equal importance to the skills above, which transfer well to paper, are the planning and preparation experience one can only acquire with trial and error. Some invaluable learning experiences of the summer are listed below.<\/p>\n
Among the skills acquired\/honed and lessons learned, this season\u00a0was rich with work-facilitated experiences to be appreciated for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n
Above is a sample of my experience as a CLM intern in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska. Each individual intern likely received an overlapping, but occasionally different and equally beneficial wealth of skills and personal lessons.\u00a0I am a firm believer in this program and feel fortunate CBG provides young botanists and conservationists with such incredibly diverse and beneficial internships. Let us hope that environmental policy continues\u00a0to swing in our favor, increasing permanent employment opportunities to meet our skilled pool of qualified field biologists and technicians.<\/p>\n
Salud,<\/p>\n
Jacob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I cannot wrap my head around the fact that only 8 months ago, sitting in the concrete jungle of Quito, Ecuador, I had my first interview for the CLM internship and was referred to work with the National Park Service … Continue reading