Let’s Go Find ‘Em
Detectives, databases, and dogged determination — employees and contractors with the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians have used these means, and others, to locate Whereabouts Unknown. That is what OST calls Individual Indian Money account holders who don’t have current address information on file.

There is a lot of money — more than $74 million total — OST is holding for WAUs. Some accounts have tens of thousands of dollars in them!

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Intern Program Enhancing Diversity Recruitment in Northeast
In its second year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Conservation Intern Program is proving to be a rewarding partnership. CIP, a joint program of the Service’s Northeast Region and the Student Conservation Association, introduces students from culturally and ethnically diverse backgrounds to careers in natural resources.

For many years the Service has partnered with SCA, whose mission is to build the next generation of conservation leaders by engaging young people in hands-on service to the land. In 2007, the Service’s National Wildlife Refuge System in the Northeast Region initiated a search for methods to enhance diversity recruitment and targeted SCA for assistance in developing CIP.

Does Size Really Matter?
A forest made up of the world’s tallest trees can invite a lot of questions. Why do coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens, grow only in northern California? Why do they grow so tall? Is there something more significant about this forest than the size of the trees?

The redwood forest attracts visitors from around the world for many reasons; one is its age. Indeed this forest contains descendants of some of the oldest plants on Earth. You can almost imagine a dinosaur crashing through the understory and thundering down the trail. Ferns and horsetails have evolved over 300 million years and once formed forests 50 feet tall.