U.S. Army

Elwynn Sherman is a Biological Field Intern placed at Fort Cavazos, Texas through a partnership with the Army and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Sherman’s position assists with a wide variety of critical conservation tasks – trapping invasives, monitoring endangered species, and more – all...

Shelby Truckenbrod is a PhD student at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Through a partnership with the USFWS and the Army, she works at Fort Devens in eastern Massachusetts, facilitating partnerships to monitor and research Blanding’s turtles.

Emily Grace Thompson is a Digital Media Intern at The Fish and Wildlife Service's Headquarters. Her position is funded in partnership with the Army, and her job focuses around supporting youth employment and communicating successes in Army Natural Resources Programs.

How do you go from chef to conservationist? After working 13 years in the culinary industry, Ryan Saito (he/him) is now a Federal Pathways Intern in Hawaii, working with Lyon Arboretum, James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge, and the Oahu Army Natural Resources Program.

The U.S. Army has partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to preserve our nation’s most at risk ecosystems. This series, In Defense of Our Natural Resources, highlights the success of these projects and of those who made them a reality.

Julianne Johnson (she/her) is a Federal Pathways Intern working across three labs in Manoa Valley and the North Shore: Oahu Army Natural Resources Program, Lyon Arboretum, and James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge. After initially pursuing a career as an emergency veterinary technician, funding...

Federal partners are working to accelerate improvements to hydrographic data through the Advanced Water Mapping and Analytics Initiative. Learn more about this initiative.