Tara Hall '03, writes in an email "I have just finished up a summer internship at Mt. Rainier where I worked on an amphibian crew. I spent the summer surveying lentic and lotic habitats for salamanders, frogs, and newts. I really liked this because I was able to capture (nets), identify, then release these slimy creatures back into the water. The lakes we monitor are long-term lakes and this was the first year we used a new protocol. Every year, crews will visit the same lakes to check for the presence or absence of species we found this year.
I will then be starting a new internship at Big Sur, CA. I will be working for the non-profit organization: The Ventana Wilderness Society, at their Ornithology Research Lab. I will be gaining additional hands-on experience working with animals, this time birds. I will be involved with banding song birds, setting up and taking down mist nets, monitoring established nests, and estimating clusters of over-wintering monarch butterflies.
I will be receiving credit for each of these internships through Evergreen. I will then finish out winter and spring quarters in the classroom and graduate by June of next year. After that, I will prepare for my entry tests to graduate school. I am seriously thinking of pursuing a Master's in Teaching at Seattle University, which is only a one year commitment. This is still up in the air, but it may actually happen. Can you believe it, this, coming from someone who didn't even think she would get a bachelors.
Thanks for all your help, advice, and recommendations over the last couple of years."
Ashley Bouck '05, writes in an email: "I graduated from Spokane Community College in the summer of 2005 and was hired on with the Natural Resources Conservation Service as a Soil Conservationist SCEP (Student Career Experience Program). Being a SCEP means I will be able to be hired on full time with no further competition upon the completion of my Bachelors degree at an accredited university. I will be attending the University of Washington in Seattle starting January 2006 to get my BS in Forest Ecology.
Rusty Ruchert, writes in an email
" ... graduated and got a job with Montana Fish wildlife and parks as a Game Warden. I will be a Game Warden Trainee, then I will be given a district after that."