My Internship Experience

June 14th,          Today was another weekly cleanup, my favorite part of it was that I got to Kayak for the first time. There was nothing too special about this cleanup since there wasnt too much trash, maybe 10 pounds worth. We did get rained on so after the cleanup there were not a lot for us to do besides take innovatory. June 15th,                    Today had to be the most fun I have had in this internship. The bugs we collected a few weeks ago from the Avon Creek, we got to I.D. them down to the last detail. This actually boosted my confidence in knowing my bugs.            After Identifying the bugs we actually went out into the field and completed three Road Stream Crossing sites. My supervisor got to hold a frog while the interns were collecting the data needed. It was pretty neat how the frog didnt want to move from his hand. June 16th,                Today was the day that tested everyone's patients. We had our last Stream Leaders event, my main qu

***Sorry for this post being late, I was sick this past week and slowed me down a bit... *** June 7th,             Today was not too bad, we had our weekly clean. This time it was at the spill way at St. Clair Lake. I must say this has to be one of the most beautiful places I seen (the lake that is).  This cleanup is not like the others this was considered to be a "Kayak" cleanup where volunteers used Kayaks to clean the shores since the water was deep.              After the Clean up we went back to the office and had to re-checked all the bags for the River day event to make sure each bag had the correct number of shirts. This took a while since we couldn't find the missing adult mediums. Luckily we were able to find enough of them that they were hidden away for some reason. After this I had to drop off a bag of t-shirts at the Bald Mountain Recreation Area main office since they needed theirs that day. June 9th,         Today I did nothing... Literally nothi

*** Sorry for not posting on time like I usually do. I had a cold last week that slowed me down a bit.*** May 30th,          Today consisted of stream leaders... nothing too bad, We also sorted and packed all of the t-shirts that were needed for the upcoming River Day event. I also finished up the summary that my supervisor asked me to do. May 31st,          Today all we did was training on Road Crossing. Road Crossing training is about how to evaluate culverts that provide water passage for bugs, fish, frogs, etc. If some culverts are in poor shape (rusting out, there is no actual passage way for these living organisms) the CRWC will let the D.O.T. (Department of Transportation) know so they will be able to put the culvert on their list of things needed to be fixed.