Public Lands Stewards: Choose Your Own Adventure

Public Lands Stewards: Choose Your Own Adventure

“Choose your own adventure” is how I would describe the wilderness. Shear scree fields, deafening thunderstorms, and collapsing trees in burn areas are some of the obstacles that will be faced. Whether or not you want to attempt to slide 20 feet down the field, sleep...
Public Lands Stewards: A Sense of Confidence

Public Lands Stewards: A Sense of Confidence

It’s not even August yet and this summer has been one of the most influential, awakening, and educational times of my life. Each week is a little different than the one before it. I might be hiking to new areas, completing different site work tasks, or even...
Meet Angus, 2020 Public Lands Stewards Intern!

Meet Angus, 2020 Public Lands Stewards Intern!

I grew up near North Bend, Washington and spent many years enjoying the outdoors with my family and friends. In the process of getting my Environmental Science degree at Central Washington University (CWU), I fell in love with our dry montane and shrub-steppe...
Meet Anna, 2020 Public Lands Stewards Intern!

Meet Anna, 2020 Public Lands Stewards Intern!

Originally from Michigan, I currently call the beautiful state of Washington my home. My love for the outdoors began at a young age spending summers in the Adirondacks with my family and ultimately led me to thru hike the Pacific Crest Trail in 2017. This hike...
Meet Erica, 2020 Public Lands Stewards Intern!

Meet Erica, 2020 Public Lands Stewards Intern!

When I discovered conservation work a few years ago, the entire trajectory of my life was changed. I jumped, whole-heartedly, into a lifestyle that was both simple and also incredibly fulfilling. My first love were the Rocky Mountains of south central Colorado- and in...
Meet Ian, 2020 Public Lands Stewards Intern!

Meet Ian, 2020 Public Lands Stewards Intern!

From birth my life has been beset with a myriad of outdoor experiences ranging from windy peaks to deep, muddy caves. In between those adventures I’ve delved into a variety of hobbies including musicianship, carpentry, and gaming. My passion for motion leads me...
Meet Jake, 2020 Public Lands Stewards Intern!

Meet Jake, 2020 Public Lands Stewards Intern!

Hello, my name is Jake Kendall and I’m from Roseville, Minnesota. I went to school at the University of Minnesota Duluth where I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in urban and regional studies. I focused on land management, public policy, and urban...
Meet Raina, 2020 Public Lands Stewards Intern!

Meet Raina, 2020 Public Lands Stewards Intern!

I grew up in northwest Ohio where it is as flat as can be and so didn’t truly get into any adventure type sports until I moved into the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania. I dove right in after college doing a six weekend-long white water rafting training...
Meet Victoria, 2020 Public Lands Stewards intern!

Meet Victoria, 2020 Public Lands Stewards intern!

Growing up in the Pocono mountains of Pennsylvania I was taught to embrace and appreciate the nature around me by my father. Being an Infantryman in the Army, my father was no stranger to walking tireless miles with a heavy pack. So it was no surprise when I had...

Public Lands Stewards: Where Did the Summer Go?

My one person tent and the Alpine Lakes Wilderness have become my home and I am not ready to let either of them go. These past few months have been a whirlwind of adventures. There are only a dozen or so lakes that I have yet to visit and only a few trails that I have...

Public Lands Stewards: Reintroduction

  It has been barely over a month since I began the internship with Mt. Adams Institute. After spending a winter in Bozeman, MT, I became accustomed to so many luxuries that I didn’t realize how detached I was becoming to the natural world around me. I slept in a...

Public Lands Stewards: Better Safe Than Sorry

  I am stationed on the Entiat Ranger District of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest as a backcountry ranger. Due to training and the terrain of my district, I have been loaned to the Chelan Ranger District for my first two tours. Lake Chelan, the main...

Public Lands Stewards: The Quick and Dirty

  The first time I crossed over Highway 20 and into the Methow Valley I was in a strangers truck hitchhiking from Bellingham, WA to Glacier National Park. Our driver pulled off the road at Washington Pass where Liberty Bell, Early Winters Spires and the Needles...