Ducks Unlimited Alaska Intern

We found ourselves in the middle of a fierce storm to begin my second week in Alaska. This gave us an opportunity to get trail cameras ready for our up coming project, seal up some waders, and get some GPS work done in the office. The weather settled down on Wednesday and I was able to get out in the field the last three days of the week. Wednesday and Friday were spent working on a new project, starting this year, aimed at monitoring dusky nest survival by surveying for eagles as possible nest predators. We were able to check out our control and treatment plots and perform eagle surveys. On Thursday, I was able to get out on an Elodea project to help fix some transects. Elodea is an invasive aquatic plant in Alaska and it was great to get some experience with this project. We have a big week coming up and I will be in the field for about eight days from Wednesday to Wednesday. We will be searching for dusky nests and setting out plot watcher cameras to observe possible depredation

Hi, my name is Nathan Boma and I am the new Ducks Unlimited intern working on the dusky Canada goose project in Cordova, Alaska with the US Forest Service. I am originally from Minnesota and have started this blog to document my experiences and promote the dusky Canada goose project on a tentative weekly basis. I flew into Alaska a week ago Friday and the first week has flown by. I was able to settle in on the weekend and was lucky enough to have incredible weather that allowed me to get out on some beautiful hikes. Once the work week started I was able to jump right in. Field season is beginning, so a lot of this week involved getting things prepared . A big part of the preparation was spending a day out on the Copper River Delta setting up field camp for the dusky project. On top of that, we conducted aerial surveys to locate and identify eagle nests for a future Canada goose depredation study.  In addition, I also got familiar with the office and gear compound. I have