22 September 2020
Conservation Banks Tracking Compliance: Protecting Land in Perpetuity
Conservation Banks: Protecting Land in Perpetuity The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Directorate Fellowship Project: I was responsible for monitoring compliance for conservation banks in Southern California. What is Conservation Banking? Conservation banks were designed…
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17 September 2020
HAF Welcomes New Communications Manager
Hispanic Access Foundation is pleased to announce the hiring of Karina Meza, who will serve as the Communications Manager. She will plan and implement HAF’s communications strategy, which includes drafting and submitting press releases, conducting…
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16 September 2020
ATMOS: Translating a Wildfire Emergency
The firestorms that struck California in 2017 changed everything for Gabriela Orantes. In the early morning hours of October 9, 2017, her phone pinged. The junior college had sent an emergency alert. Alarmed that classes…
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13 September 2020
LAS CRUCES SUN NEWS: Conservation can help solve multiple crises
Our country is facing multiple crises. Yet too often, we fail to take on our challenges holistically, and so they continue down separate tracks. Fortunately, two crises impacting New Mexico are converging, with local communities…
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31 August 2020
Summer Assessment
A little over a week ago I picked up a park service car from the Charlestown Navy Yard for a day of driving around Boston and retrieving the backpacks of filmmaking tools we had lent…
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29 August 2020
My Farewell as a DFP Fellow
As my Fellowship is coming to a close I would like to say how grateful I am for having had an opportunity like this amidst a pandemic.
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