Our Outreach Coordinator had the pleasure of sitting down with a group of current and former VetsWork Interns to discuss their service, current roles, and connections to the outdoors. Read below about Julian Rodriguez, Wilderness Recreation Technician for the Tongass National Forest. Continue Reading…
Our Outreach Coordinator had the pleasure of sitting down with a group of current and former VetsWork Interns to discuss their service, current roles, and connections to the outdoors. Read below about Patrick Ford, Volunteer Coordinator for the Sumter National Forest. Continue Reading…
Our Outreach Coordinator had the pleasure of sitting down with a group of current and former VetsWork Interns to discuss their service, current roles, and connections to the outdoors. Read below about Chris Sutherland, Field Technician for the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership (LCEP). Continue Reading…
The Umatilla National Forest (UNF) recently restricted access to the public due to unfavorable fire conditions. Continue Reading…
Alaska has been called the last frontier, and for good reason. Continue Reading…
Over the last five months I have been working as a Recreation, Education, Community Engagement Specialist with Tillamook Estuaries Partnership (TEP) and its numerous partners out of Garibaldi, Oregon. Continue Reading…
This Picture is a great example of the weather in Ketchikan Alaska. Continue Reading…
I am halfway through my second term with VetsWork and I’m feeling grateful for the opportunity that Mt. Adams Institute has given me. Continue Reading…
Greetings, welcome to the concise memoir of Patrick Ford, an AmeriCorps intern at the Andrew Pickens Ranger District (AP). Continue Reading…
When the pandemic hit, I was living in Minneapolis, MN and working as a corporate copywriter in the healthcare industry. Continue Reading…
During the last day of the eight- to twelve-year-old camp, Outdoor Explores, we took the Campers to the Ice Caves nearby campus. Continue Reading…
This summer I truly feel like I’m the lucky one – I get to go to camp all summer long! Continue Reading…
Although this is my second year serving as an AmeriCorps intern at Mt. Adams institute, this is my first experience working here at the camp, in-person with the campers and fellow counselors. Continue Reading…
The WREN office is located in the West Eugene Wetlands and a large part of our curriculum focuses on wetland ecology. Continue Reading…
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” (Thoreau, 1854) Continue Reading…