UNH Interns to Start Summer Stewardship

Introducing the Nature Groupie Stewardship Interns for 2020: Emily Chen, Owen Hill, and Grace McCulloch

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Stewardship Tip: How to Know when the Beaver's Home

Beavers are arguably New England's number one rodent, but do you know all the telltale signs that there's a beaver in your neighborhood?

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Introducing the Summer Interns of 2019

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Dog Days of Summer

2018 Nature Groupie summer interns Alaina and Drew recap their final weeks working for Nature Groupie

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Pulling Dandelions in the Clouds

Summer intern Diane engaged nature volunteers and supported conservation partners during her internship at Nature Groupie in 2018. Here she shares photos of a workday on Mt. Washington!

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Where the Interns Learn what "Personal Space" Means to a Seagull

Drew and Alaina have been doing a crazy amount of work in the last few weeks! Enjoy the variety of projects they've been working on with our partners, Moreno Forestry, SELT, Gulls of Appledore, and the Town of Durham.

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A Tale of Turtles and Cottontails

Working with New Hampshire State endangered wildlife species as Nature Groupie interns for outdoor volunteers in New England.

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Introducing the Nature Groupie Interns for 2018

Summer interns with Nature Groupie worked on stewardship and outreach.

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That's a Wrap!

Summer intern Morgan Martell's final reflections at the end of her ten week internship.

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Here, There, and Everywhere

Summer intern Morgan Martell shares stories about the second half of her internship.

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Stewardship Tip: Mapping Trails for TrailFinder

Summer intern Morgan Martell has spent the past two weeks mapping trails for Trail Finder.

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Marsh Madness with U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Summer intern Morgan Martell worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the first two weeks of her internship.

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Enthusiasm is Contagious: 5th Graders Fuel the Garlic Mustard Challenge

Intern Kelley McDonnell ran a Garlic Mustard Challenge pull with 40 middle schoolers and staff.

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Results from the 2016 Garlic Mustard Challenge: New England!

Are you ready to pull plants for the next challenge?

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A Summer to Remember

Summer intern Megan Verfaillie shares some of her most memorable moments from the 2016 summer.

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Unforgettable Ending

Summer intern Amanda Cugno shares experiences mapping trails, going to the Isles of Shoals, and helping out Bear-Paw Regional Greenways.

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From Watchers to Catchers

Summer intern Megan Verfaille's take on the UNH Storm Watchers project.

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TrailFinder Testing

Summer intern Amanda Cugno shares her experiences helping map trails for TrailFinder.

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• Trails

Butterflies, Bunnies, and Boundaries

Summer intern Amanda Cugno shares experiences with Bear-Paw boundaries and butterflies and bunnies with NH Fish & Game.

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The Best of Both Worlds

From beach grass to water sampling, here's a few things I've learned here in my first month working with UNH!

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Keeping the "Great" in the Great Bay

Summer intern Megan Verfaillie shares her experience working on water quality in Great Bay.

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Working with "SELTies" and "Woodlums"

Summer intern Amanda Cugno shares stories from working with Southeast Land Trust and UNH Office of Woodlands and Natural Areas.

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Beach Blitz Volunteers Provide a Water Quality Snapshot of New Hampshire Beaches

New Hampshire’s beautiful and highly rated 13 mile slice of the Atlantic coast is a popular vacation destination in New England. So how clean are its coastal beaches?

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Strictly Professional at Southeast Land Trust

Summer intern Tomás Nocera writes about working with Phil Auger at the Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire in 2015.

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Following the Tracks: One Bear-Paw at a Time

Summer intern Tomás Nocera describes his field work with Bear Paw Regional Greenways in 2015.

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A Great Big World at Great Bay

For summer intern Tomás Nocera, working at Great Bay National Wildlife Refuge never provided a dull day.

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Over the River and Through the Woods

Summer intern Tomás Nocera works with Steve Eisenhaure and the Woodlands and Natural Areas Office.

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Off-Trail: Outdoor Skills for Conservation Workshop

Navigating through the woods with a compass and a map.

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Walking the Line

Summer intern Jo Lewis spent her last two weeks with the NRCS doing easement monitoring baseline reports and eating blueberries.

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A Summer of Learning

Summer intern Lisa Demaine's shares news of her summer spent working with UNH Extension and NH Sea Grant.

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One of the Crew

Summer intern Jo Lewis spent two weeks with the UNH Office of Woodlands and Natural Areas summer crew doing a variety of projects, including forest inventory, building bridges, and marking lots of trees.

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Getting Bitter (Sweet)

Summer intern Jo Lewis spent two weeks with the New Castle Conservation Commission eradicating invasive plants and creating outreach documents.

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A Day at the Docks with Baby Oysters

Oyster restoration in Great Bay was helped by volunteer oyster-counters all this week. Network intern Lisa Demaine tells what she learned on a day at the docks.

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For the Birds

Summer intern Jo Lewis spent a week on the Isles of Shoals to assist in tern research with the UNH Cooperative Extension.

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4-H Lends a Hand or 80

Forty 4H teens from across NH helped tackle the glossy buckthorn invasion of UNH’s College Woods as part of the annual NH 4-H Teen Conference.

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Lending a Hand to a Land Trust

Summer intern Jo Lewis spent her first week with the Property Manager of Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire maintaining conserved properties.

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Meet Jo, our Summer Intern

Nature Groupie has an intern working with five different conservation partners this summer.

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