Wow! I can’t believe I’m two months into my Field Ranger Crew Lead extension. Time is going by so quicky. Working for the Angeles National Forest has kept me on my toes, but in a good way. I’ve gotten to experience summer season and now fire season here on the Angeles, which is a whole can of worms but I’m enjoying my time here. One of my main duties as a Field Ranger is providing outreach to the public. This has been pretty fun because my crew lead and I get to set up at multiple different locations of the Angeles and sometimes in the city. Our main focus right now is fire safety and leaving no trace messaging to the public. I had an opportunity to create my own tabling interpretive game to enhance leave no trace principles on our forest. And so far, it's given us some really good public engagement.

In the beginning of October, the Angeles National Forest reopened a recreation site called Chantry Flats. This recreation site had been closed for four years due to the Bobcat fire. Since it was closed to the public for so long, the public was eager to go back and hike the trails there. So as Field Rangers, my other crew lead and I were able to hike to the waterfall located in that reaction site before anyone else so that we could become familiar with the area. That way for opening day we would be well-versed with information about conditions of the trail. The hike to the waterfall so lovely! We encountered so many little frogs while hiking to the falls. It was an incredible experience because we had it all to ourselves. I attached a picture of the falls so you all can see how pretty it is.