After the big hike last week I had to take some time off because my feet were pretty banged up. In fact one of the staff coordinators on the trip is a certified Wilderness EMT who has worked on trail crews told me I had...
It's done. The three panel exhibit on the school segregation of Topeka's Mexican community is done. The exhibit follows a timeline beginning with a very basic overview of Mexican immigration into Kansas and concludes with the beginning of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The opportunity...
As part of the EveryKid In A Park Initiative, Fire Island National Seashore has been reaching out to local school groups, camps and scout programs to extend an open welcome, as well as encourage patronage to the many National Park Service sites on Fire Island....
Welcome back for my ninth blog post of the Designing The Parks summer! This upcoming week I will be traveling to Colorado for the Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF) conference with all the other Latino Heritage Internship Program (LHIP) interns across the country, so I will...
[caption id="attachment_8217" align="aligncenter" width="562"] Aisne Marne main gates (before Cram and Ferguson Architect redesign)[/caption] Later in history the American Battlefield Monument Commission proceeded with redesigning the existing War Department cemeteries with memorial chapels and other features and constructing...
These past couple of weeks have been pretty hectic here in Lowell. We've been busy and we've been having fun with two great events that have just recently occurred: our Latino Conservation Week event, Salsa and Sustainability, and the 30th Lowell Folk Festival! There's a...
Our first multiday trip of the summer was to Wupatki National Monument and the Grand Canyon. THE GRAND CANYON! This was not my first visit to this part of the world, but this trip ended up being so much different and so much more satisfying...
(For this week's blog I decided to share the follow up story that I wrote for Latino Conservation Week. Also, I would like to thank all the volunteers and organizers because without them this day would not have been possible). ***BOULDER CITY, Nevada...
This weekend was definitely one for the books. About two weeks ago, my brother Jordan called me saying, "Kay (his wife) and I are coming to Santa Fe next weekend." I'm pretty sure I joyfully shouted in response. Kay and I at El Rancho...
Los Parques Nacionales es conocido por todo el mundo como "La mejor idea de los Estados Unidos." En el mes que ha trabajado aquí en Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve veo como la "mejor idea" falta en respeto de la diversidad. En...
It all started with Sasquatch. My supervisor, Cathy Peterson, hands me a doll size version of Sasquatch at the beginning of camp preparation. Summer camps start next week with two groups of around thirty middle-school aged youth here at the Lewis and Clark NHP. To...
This week 6 of the 11 YCC Interp interns, Ranger Amala Posey, her fiancée, and myself went on a weeklong trip to the North Rim with making quick pitstops at Lee's Ferry and Glen Canyon Dam. This 5 day adventure had its highs and lows,...
What’s the best thing about being an Interpretive Park Ranger? For me it is being able to get to know and share information with visitors who came across Craters of the Moon looking to know more. The majority of the times visitors come to CRMO...
This week training has consumed most of my time at work, but I’d much rather discuss a cosmic coincidence I observed since my time here. I was recently reminded of my younger self through the lens of a young girl we will call Ema. ...
I spent the majority of this month preparing for the Latino Conservation Week outreach event at Mission San Jose. For the event, we coordinated with a group of Girl Scouts from Westside San Antonio, to put up several activities that kids could do to earn...
As promised in my last blog post, I am going to use this blog post to talk more extensively about our Latino Conservation Week experiences at Northeastern University. Latino Conservation Week was this past week, from July 16th-24th, and the goal of the entire week...
It’s been a four day week, but only after an incredible weekend with one of my close friends, and other LHIP intern, Alexia! I took advantage of the extended weekend to travel a little –one of my ongoing addictions. I found out Alexia was interning...
There's a ranger on the site whose last name is Standingwater. Standingwater. Still water. Still water. There was a small bird on the ground this quiet morning. Still morning. Still morning. There was a life taken...
Northern California was blessed with amazing weather for the Fourth of July weekend, and I was given the chance to go back to my beloved Humboldt County to spend the holiday there by tagging along with LAVO’s awesome Wildlife Technician, Eric, who was on a...
Introduciré brevemente a Eric López, quien es estudiante doctoral de Historia de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, recinto de Río Piedras y al mismo tiempo es el historiador de San Juan Historic National Site por siete años. Su especialidad es en historia de artillería española. Todo comenzó...