July 9, 2008
Heyyyy, BooBoo!
This summer Albert and I are having an adventure living and working in Yellowstone National Park. I have an internship with the National Park Service in the Landscape Architecture division. (No, I’m not a park ranger, and no I don’t get a uniform. I know, boo.) But I did talk them into giving me an NPS cap after I told them that my San Gabriel Nursery hat doesn’t quite make the same impression on park visitors.
Every day that I’m here, I step outside and can’t believe how lucky I am. This is America’s first national park, indeed the first in the world – the largest protected wildlife area on our continent, and the size of two states, Delaware and Rhode Island combined… and yet the average tourist only sees Yellowstone for one-and-a-half days. It’s unforgivable. Now, I’m here for an entire season, but with 2 million acres of valleys and peaks and lakes and 10,000 geysers, I know I can’t see everything. But I’m definitely going to try my best!
I'm having the adventure of a lifetime this summer working in Yellowstone National Park. I work for the National Park Service as a landscape architecture intern. 2 million acres of wilderness, and bears, bison, and birds crashing into my car, oh my!
