I do not update this too often, and a lot has happened since my last posting. This year I have completed two summer internships, one was for the Alligator River and Pea Island National Wildlife Refuges on the outer banks of North Carolina. There I worked various odd jobs as a swamp canoe tour guide, a speaker at park programs, some hair-snaring bear research, park maintenance, sea turtle research and nest relocation, bird banding research on sandwich terns and brown pelicans, fish hatchery work and much, much more. The second internship this summer was at Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo in Byron, Minnesota, where I worked at the zoo, doing daily a