Where is your favorite place that you’ve worked?

Ask a Biologist Monday 1/2/23

Answers from Biologists:

  • Juneau, AK

  • The Jones Center at Ichauway. Always really interesting research happening and fun teams.

  • National Park Service-Wildlife Health Branch.

  • Huron mountains in the Upper Peninsula of MI.

  • California R5 - LA and Orange county.

  • The Upper Peninsula of MI doing Wood Turtle research.

  • Espanola Island, Galapagos.

  • Baxter State Park - Katahdin is magic and being a backcountry ranger is still my favorite job ever.

  • New Mexico Environment Dept. Unionized.

  • Southern Sierra Nevadas.

  • Salmon, ID. Most magical place.

  • Had the luck to work in the Galapagos. Every biologist’s dream.

  • All the places. They’re all beautiful in their own way.

  • Wyoming Game and Fish in Lander, WY.

  • Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

  • Midway Atoll.

  • Tongass National Forest, AK.

  • St. Christopher Camp in Johns Island, SC.

  • Bhanga Nek in South Africa.

  • Tennessee State Parks. Fun, rewarding, with a lot of biology/ecology/wildlife connections.

  • Kenya.

  • Missouri Ozarks.

  • The Bronx River.

  • Colorado River in Glen Canyon.

  • Montana’s Bitterroot Valley.

  • Pecos Wilderness, New Mexico.

  • Great Smokey Mountains, National Park.

  • Eastern Egg Rock, ME. A small 7-acre island thriving with seabirds.

  • Bialowieza National Park in Poland, before they started cutting down old growth trees.

  • West Maui Mountains.

  • Pisgah National Forest, NC.

  • Prince William Sound-Cordova, AK.

  • Pribilof Islands, AK.

  • Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community has been by far the best place to work.

  • Wood Tikchik State Park, Alaska.

  • Oklahoma panhandle.

  • Umpqua National Forest in OR so far. Great staff and fun surveys.

  • Bird Island, South Georgia.

  • Tuscarora State Forest, PA.

  • Sekiu, WA. Nestled right on the northern side of Olympic National Park.

  • Devil’s Punchbowl, California.

  • Southeastern AS. Biodiversity hotspot.

  • Liberia.

  • Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, Canada.

  • Waterton Lakes National Park.

  • Chugach National Forest.

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