Suzanne Tarkulich arrived at Big Hole National Battlefield in Montana in October, and already she’s visited Yellowstone, Grand Teton, and Glacier National Parks, as well...
Posts by Kevin Hamilton
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Tuesday, December 1, 2020
This is our second in a series of SCA winter project profiles.
In recent years, SCA’s long-running summer-fall Adirondack Corps has added a smaller winter program...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Wednesday, November 25, 2020
As the seasons turn, SCA is turning our spotlight on members working in winter conditions.
Sled dogs have always been part of Denali National Park and...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Tuesday, September 8, 2020
By Grace O’Hara, Richard J. Guadagno SCA Conservation Fellow
Nineteen years ago on September 11th our nation changed forever when four planes departed from various East...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2020
“Don’t mind that sound,” said Liz Putnam. “It’s only my bird clock chirping away.”
Late last month, the recorded call of a yellow warbler signaled the...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Monday, May 4, 2020
by David Kurapka
Like so many SCA alumni I was deeply moved by Sarah’s reflections on how her SCA experience prepared her for being isolated...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Monday, April 27, 2020
Since 2018, SCA has engaged local young adults in GulfCorps, a program in which members restore coastal habitats damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2020
This 50th Earth Day is unlike any other and Katie Wareham is celebrating in similarly unique fashion: she’s exiting a self-imposed 14-day quarantine.
But before we...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Monday, April 20, 2020
March 16th marked Zack Rowatt’s and Erica Watkins’ first day as interpretive interns at Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve. That’s also the day the...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2020
by Kevin Hamilton, SCA VP for Communications
On April 21, 2009 – barely three months after his inauguration – Barack Obama planted native trees with SCA...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Monday, March 2, 2020
In February, we introduced SCA interns – and twins – Megan and Katie Woods, who are researching underplayed yet essential moments from Boston’s past at...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Friday, February 14, 2020
SCA interns – and sisters – Megan and Katie Woods are researching rarely recognized yet essential moments in US history at the National Parks of...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Thursday, February 13, 2020
Few if any calendars make note of it, and Hallmark has no greeting card for it, but February is National Youth Leadership Month. A time...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Friday, January 24, 2020
SCA volunteers are known for their contributions to America’s parks and forests, but often less recognized is the extraordinary influence site supervisors have on these...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Monday, December 16, 2019
by Miles Starr Radin, SCA Intern
“Are we gonna see a gorilla?!” one student asks as she steps off the bus. For most, it is their...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Wednesday, November 6, 2019
The young boy practically jumps out of the car. “Don’t forget the arrows!” he shouts
...by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Friday, October 25, 2019
Amber Flowers is a bat monitoring intern at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. With Halloween on the horizon, we just had to ask what...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Tuesday, October 15, 2019
by Tony Gurzick
Do you have a vocation? Not just a job you have or a role you play in your life but a true calling?
I...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Lou Lunte has spent his career in the environmental field and for the past 30 years has been deputy state director of The Nature Conservancy...
by Kevin Hamilton | Posted Friday, September 13, 2019
It’s hard to know where to look when assessing SCA’s GulfCorps. Do you focus on the team’s lengthy list of accomplishments? The number of young...