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"I was always the kid getting outside and getting lost and grimy and playing with frogs and cutting trees."

"I think that the first thing that agencies have to acknowledge is there's an extreme power imbalance between what value we put on scientific knowledge and what value we put on local knowledge."

“I'm more and more impatient with the slow pace of science and feel like at the rate the world is changing these days, we really need to make progress.”

"As a leader you're not there to tell people what to do. You're there to support them succeeding at what they already can do best or helping them learn to do something better."

“I'm definitely interested in expanding access to nature because I do think it's really important for mental health and spirituality and physical health.”

“It's easy to be satisfied with incremental change when the incremental change is not affecting you.”

“As a mentor it's important for me to advocate for my students, especially as undergraduates you really feel like you're at the bottom and you have no power.”

“I think as humans, especially when it's in our backyard, we want to feel like we have a process, that we have ownership in that, and we have agency to make our voices heard.”

" I have to be able to be on my toes and defend all of the work that my team has done, and yet if I question any of the work any of the other teams have done, immediately I'm called in the office."