The salt marsh bird’s beak (CHMAMA for short) is an endangered hemiparasite, which means that it latches onto other plants to sustain it for water and nutrients. It inserts a haustorium, a rootlike structure, to…

Non-native species (those introduced to an area outside of its natural range) have been listed as one of the five major causes of extinction world-wide. One such species, European beach grass, was planted throughout sand…

It would be an understatement to say that COVID-19 has drastically changed how people learn, work, and play over the past year. Before I began my remote position as a directorate fellow with the U.S.…

In my previous blog post, I mentioned how I thought my role here as a Resource Assistant was going to be mostly doing maintenance and Rech Tech work but things completely changed a few days…

On the 17th of June, I and other fellow Washington Office Resource Assistants (RAs) were given the opportunity to visit the Yates building for the day. Due to working remotely, I was very excited to get…

I’m approaching three weeks completed at Rio Mora National Wildlife Refuge (Rio Mora NWR) through the Directorate Fellows Program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The shortgrass prairie landscape of Northeastern New Mexico…