For my first field job I worked as a wildlife tech for a grad student in Northern New York. We were studying a threatened turtle species called the Blanding turtle. It was my job to wade through the swamps and see if I could catch them. One day I was working an area that didn’t have…

In my years with the DWR, there’s one day that really stands out. It was a warm spring morning at Pioneer Park Pond, and the Ogden Senior Citizen Center dropped by for an outing. The seniors enjoyed themselves as they always did, visiting with each other in the outdoors. At about that time, I saw a kid down at the pond catching…