When the Executive Vice President of the firm asks you specifically to deal with a problem, of course you jump at the chance to prove yourself to the partners. So, if that means you have to grab your work-BFF, drive four-and-a-half hours north of Sacramento into the rural backwoods of California, and try to convince some old lady to let a conservationist team investigate a threatened species that lives on her property, you hop in the Prius and go. Sure, the cell service might suck, but a little trek into nature can’t be that bad a way to spend the day, right?