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My Wild Animal Experience
By: Dakota Dyer, Student Conservation Intern-Summer 2024Me holding a female goose before it gets banded. Lake Etta, Gary, IN. June 28th, 2024. Photo Credits: Gus NybergDuring this internship I have learned to love and cherish the county I have grown up in. I have...
Get To Know Janell Rottier and Her Community Impact
Photo of Janell Rottier, Founder and Executive Director of ANEW MinistriesIn the Q&A here, get to know Janell Rottier and all she and her team at ANEW Ministries are doing to help the moms in our community. What brought you into the nonprofit sector and your...
The Caterpillar Named Little Homie
By: Samuel Lipsky, Student Conservation Intern- Summer 2024This is a photo of Lil Homie on top of the sweet clover. June 15th 2024. Photo by Gus Nyberg, DNR.It was a dark and gloomy day in July, four of us Student Conservation Interns were out pulling an invasive...
Professional Skills in Conservation
By Shaylee Marks, Student Conservation Intern - Summer 2024Pictured above is me at the Soil and Water table at Earth Night. This is one of the various events that I practiced my introduction and professional skills at, as I met so many people! Picture taken by: Bri...
Finding Connections in Unlikely Places
By Kedzie Kmiec - Student Conservation Intern, 2023-2024 School Year Intern Kedzie driving a tractor - "Photo taken on another day once I worked up the courage to drive" Photo by Bri StyckAt the beginning of this Newton County Student Conservation Internship, I was...
Oh Deer!
By Ava Ivery - Student Conservation Intern, 2023-24 School YearAva Ivey looking for the lymph nodes. Photo credits: Analise CooperFor the past seven months, I have spent my time working as a Student Conservation Intern with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources...
One Cold Wednesday
By Karalyn White - Student Conservation Intern, 2023-24 School YearKaralyn and Carly snipping Phragmites. Photo Credit: Carly Hlbassko, ©TNCOne of the most memorable days in my experience of the Newton County Conservation Internship was not the most exciting, warm, or...
My Newfound Insight and Appreciation of Wildlife Management
By Analise Cooper - Student Conservation Intern, 2023-2024 School YearSCI Analise Cooper running a 4-wheeler with a seeder attached on the back to plant nativebeneficial grasses at LaSalle FWA Photo taken by Zack DeYoung, DNRI have been lucky enough to work with the...
My Seed-Filled Summer
By Katelyn Bava - Student Conservation Intern, Summer 2023Every year The Nature Conservancy’s Kankakee Sands spends countless hours harvesting native plant seeds to plant in the 8,000 acres of prairie at Kankakee Sands. This summer at Kankakee Sands, I had many...
Remembering Why We’re Fighting
By Alexis Wynn - Student Conservation Intern, Summer 2023Alexis watering Hill’s thistle ©Gus NybergIn front of me, thousands of invasive sweet clovers cover the land like shadows, hiding the ground beneath their leaves. Being out in the prairie sun for hours pulling...