Meet the ACF 2009 Interns!

Can you imagine spending your summer helping map a traditional 50-mile canoe route to the Alsek River, in Southeast Alaska? That's just one of the projects that Nicole Jones, from Western Washington University in Bellingham, will be tackling during her internship as a natural resource planner with the Yakutat Salmon Board.

ACF's summer 2009 conservation interns will soon arrive in Alaska and begun their internships at organizations across the state. They will come from far and wide--places like the University of Puerto Rico, Middlebury College in Vermont, Eugene Lang College in New York City, Kalamazoo College in Michigan, Hastings College in Nebraska, and places beyond. Their assignments will taken them far and wide across the state, to Anchorage, Fairbanks, Sitka, Homer, Haines, Skagway, Yakutat, and Juneau. They will be involved in a range of conservation projects, from environmental and community health to climate change, field research, green jobs, grassroots organizing, habitat conservation, community outreach, watershed restoration and more.