Leah '18

Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

I’ll always remember the fun times we all had in Colorado with professor Scott Wissinger and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory crew!

I work on conservation and restoration on private lands, focusing on wetland habitat restoration, which means that we can make an immediate and substantive impact on the landscape with our work. There are tons of opportunities in the environmental field that focus more on applying good science to management and conservation, which are not always emphasized as much as the purely academic, grad school route. If you want to pursue environmental science, you don’t have to go into research.