Posts tagged “Education”

Before I moved to Northwestern Washington to serve in a year-long AmeriCorps internship for the National Forest Foundation, I had visited the Seattle area a few times. Each time, the weather had been a typical overcast day, with showers ranging from a light sprinkle, to a heavy downpour. Having grown up in Central Oregon, where there are about as many sunny days as there are in Hawaii, I knew that it would take some time getting used to the cloudy, heavy grey skies. The first time I... (Read more…)

“There are some things you can’t learn from a book; you need to experience them to really understand,” Caitlyn Bonkoski explains to me as she stands thigh deep in Upper Dominguez Creek on the Uncompahgre Plateau.  Caitlyn and her classmate, Sarah Stalcup, are the first students to participate in the Delta High School Apprenticeship in Science and Engineering sponsored by the US Forest Service.  The 6-week summer apprenticeship offers local students the opportunity to job... (Read more…)