by Mt. Adams Institute | Feb 28, 2019 | Field Notes, VetsWork
Mt. Adams Institute (MAI) attended The Corps Network 2019 National Conference in Washington, D.C. earlier this month. This conference is a yearly gathering of over 200 attendees including staff, partners, and advocates of corps organizations from all over the country....
by Mt. Adams Institute | Jan 14, 2019 | Field Notes, VetsWork
Mt. Adams Institute (MAI) is happy to announce Elamon White, VetsWork AmeriCorps alum, has been selected as The Corps Network’s 2019 Corpsmember of the Year! Each year, The Corps Network (TCN), a national association of service and conservation corps, selects a...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 14, 2018 | VetsWork
My name is Matthew Blees. I grew up in a small town of rural Pennsylvania. I have always loved hiking, fishing and anything that would bring me outdoors. I’m retired from the United States Navy. I started college working towards a computer science degree, and was...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 14, 2018 | VetsWork
Hey everyone, Brandon Mersich here with my last blog update on the Malheur National Forest AmeriCorps position. The end of the internship is almost here. The snow is starting to fly, and I am trying to finish all my projects before I take off. On the forest, I have...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 14, 2018 | VetsWork
My experience as an intern working with Mt. Adams Institute has been excellent. The amount of exposure I got working in the Umatilla National Forest was kind of overwhelming…in a great way. There are so many career paths in the Forest Service. I never imagined how...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 14, 2018 | VetsWork
“Since February I’ve been working hand in hand with Kraig Lindelin, who is the Trails and Wilderness Coordinator for the Central Coast Ranger District out of Waldport, OR. We’re rangers in the Siuslaw National Forest on Oregon’s Pacific coast, covering 126 miles of...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 14, 2018 | VetsWork
Hello my name is Serena Sue Barto and I am currently serving a VetsWork: Environment internship as a Fire/Logistics Dispatcher at the Illinois Interagency Dispatch Center in Murphysboro, Illinois on the Shawnee National Forest. It all started one night when sleep...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 12, 2018 | Land Stewards
I am currently in the final month of this internship and I couldn’t have asked for a more adventurous summer. Emily and I have been thrown multiple curveballs this summer, from our manager having part of his finger cut off in a non-work related accident, to the...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 12, 2018 | Land Stewards
It is now October and Conboy Lake is painted with beautiful hues of orange, yellow and red as the quaking aspen leaves change to their fall colors. The wildlife is in full force; I can barely sleep through the sounds of elk bugling and owls hooting through the night....
by Mt. Adams Institute | Nov 12, 2018 | Land Stewards
I recently had a lengthy conversation with my Dad about the future; my plans for it, my goals and expectations. I told him I was planning on staying in the Methow Valley for the winter and was applying for 2019 seasonal positions with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) in...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Oct 10, 2018 | Land Stewards
We are entering our final month of the Public Lands Stewards program and I am stunned at how quickly the time has gone. I remember my first few weeks, when I was still getting my footing and there was still snow on the ground. Now there is snow once again, but it is...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Oct 10, 2018 | Land Stewards
On one of our very first patrol trips, my partner Emma and I headed up to the Pyramid Mountain Trail. You access the trailhead via Shady Pass, a steep, gravel road that takes you from my home district, Entiat, up over the mountains and down the other side to the...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Oct 9, 2018 | Land Stewards
September cast a sharp visible distinction on the color wheel of the alpine basin where I’ve spent a good portion of my time as a Wilderness trails ranger intern for the Chelan Ranger District. Fields of bear grass in the meadows above Lyman Lake slim their bulbous...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Oct 2, 2018 | VetsWork
Floods are typically seen as a temporary event that can cause little to severe change in an environment. Some damage may only be temporary up to a couple days or weeks, while others last seasonally, and others cause much more invasive and permanent changes. As waters...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Oct 1, 2018 | VetsWork
During my first year of VetsWork, I was mostly getting introduced to fieldwork, having been a visitor assistant for the U.S. Forest Service previously. I gained a solid base skill set for continued work in natural resource management. At the end of that term, I was...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Sep 28, 2018 | VetsWork
I had the honor of being this year’s Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) crew leader for the Eleven Point Ranger District on the Mark Twain National Forest. It was one of the best times I have had so far during my internship. Being able to take a group of teens who have...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Sep 28, 2018 | Land Stewards
It has now been four months since I left my home to travel to Brookings, Oregon to start my AmeriCorps volunteer internship with Oregon Parks and Recreation and it has been such an incredible journey! Over the last several months I’ve had the opportunity to meet and...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Sep 28, 2018 | Land Stewards
I set my alarm for around 6:15am. That’s fifteen minutes later than when I first started this job. By now I know how to time myself for the most sleep possible and be ready for work. Breakfast is microwaved leftovers since I’ve never been much for breakfast foods...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Sep 28, 2018 | VetsWork
This is Adam Eriks again from the Grandfather Ranger District of the Pisgah National Forest. The last few months since my last blog have been pretty eventful and I have been able to do many different new tasks. I have had the opportunity to do some trail work here in...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Sep 28, 2018 | Land Stewards
It is a mid-July day, and the sun is beating down on me as I hike the Eagle Oval loop on the Methow Valley Ranger District. I am on the fourth day of my first solo hitch of the season, one that has me chasing ridgeline after ridgeline in the Lake Chelan-Sawtooth...
by Mt. Adams Institute | Sep 28, 2018 | Land Stewards
This is my second and final post for the Public Lands Stewards program with Mt. Adams Institute. Through this experience, I have gained a great appreciation and insight to the work that is done to maintain our lands. This experience working with the Willamette...
