This summer I interned with the USDA Forest Service National Partnership Office as a William A. Demmer Scholar  with funding from the National Forest Foundation.  I secured the internship because one of my professors at Michigan State University referred a class to me about natural resources advocacy and I jumped at the opportunity.  It turned out that Mark Rey, the former Undersecretary for Agriculture and Natural Resources, taught the class!  Luckily, I earned a 4.0... (Read more…)

I spent my summer in Chicago helping to develop a business plan for Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie. The basic idea is to accelerate restoration of the Midewin landscape by providing a pair of documents that the National Forest Foundation and Midewin’s other partners will be able to use as fundraising tools. One of the documents will be short and convey a grand vision for Midewin. The other, longer document, which has been my main focus, will detail the exact steps and resources... (Read more…)