31 August 2023
TIMES OF SAN DIEGO: Latino Youth, Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month via Ocean Conservation
When I think of the ocean, I think of oxygen. Most of us associate clean air with leaves and trees, but organisms in the ocean are the ones that produce most of the oxygen we…
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30 August 2023
Nick Race: Securing a Career in Invasive Plant Management through the MANO Project
Nick Race never thought he would manage and coordinate invasive plant species at a 1.3-million-acre forest in Colorado. Originally from southern New Jersey, the landscape he experienced growing up as a child was far different…
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30 August 2023
Our Heritage, Our Planet Film Week Announces 2023 Mini-Grantees Five Mini-Grants were Awarded to Filmmakers Who Identify As Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color
Our Heritage, Our Planet Film Week, an initiative of Hispanic Access Foundation, is celebrating its third annual virtual film festival from October 10-13, 2023 and this year we awarded five mini-grants to BIPOC filmmakers for…
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29 August 2023
Fire Cleanup in the Mendocino National Forest
I have been working in the US Forest Service within the Mendocino National Forest for about two months now and it has been enlightening. I have been learning more in-depth about the Mendocino, and it…
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28 August 2023
Caring For the Land and Serving People as an Indigenous
As an Indigenous, we are taught at a young age to understand the meaning of respecting and caring for the land for it takes care of us, the children of mother earth. Our morals and…
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23 August 2023
Héctor Varela: Leading the Way for Coastal Conservation in Puerto Rico
Héctor Varela grew up in a rural community in Isabela, Puerto Rico. Closer to the mountains than the ocean, he always felt an innate connection to the water. As he recounts each one of his…
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