June 13, 2017

Fisheries Technician - Fishlake National Forest


If people tell you that making a blog is easy, they are wrong. It takes a lot of time and thought to make a decent post that will hopefully be interesting to your audience. I have spent the last month trying to catch up on posts for each day of my trip to Nicaragua. I was usually able to get about two posts a week published on my page. That didn't leave room or time to make posts regarding my work as a Fisheries Technician. Because my blog is chronological, I didn't want my Nicaragua posts hidden behind more recent posts. If any of you keep a journal, then you know how hard it is when you get behind. You find yourself with two options; one is to try and write about each individual day and/or event like it had just happened or two, try and summarize into one entry everything that has happened since you last wrote. Not recording those experiences is out of the question if you are serious about your journal. As for me and the purposes of this blog, there was not that many unique experiences during the first month of work which are worth recording here. I did have cool experiences, like finding a new breeding population of Leopard frogs (Rana pipiens) or assisting the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources in a gill netting survey on Fishlake. However, they are not recent and lack photographic evidence to constitute an entire blog post each. With that said, you may think that these referenced experiences are equivalent to my next two posts and therefore deserve their own description, however for the sake of time and convenience I have taken the second option in journal keeping and summarized the experiences very briefly. Check back for new posts as I continue my journey as a biologist. I want this to be a professional representation of me and also provide an enjoyable read for those interested in my life. Feel free to let me know what you think about my blog. I have already received a few recommendations for improvements.


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