“I knew for a long time that I did not want to be stuck working in an office all day long so being able to be outside all of the time has been a really cool experience.”

“I like to think that with the inclusion of the Merrimack River Watershed Council as a service site this year, the Lakes Region Conservation Corps now helps protect every step of the upper Merrimack’s watershed.”

“Hype around cutting a tree in half has been well concealed, because if I knew how good this accomplishment would feel, I would have asked Santa for an axe years and years ago.”

“All things considered, I am certainly beginning to understand the appeal of lake life.”

“As a New Hampshire native with family in the lakes region, I grew up hiking on trails in the area, some of which were and still are owned and managed by the Lakes Region Conservation Trust (LRCT), the host site I now serve with.”

“I feel like I’ve finally gotten my feet under me, and I’m eager to see what new wonders Squam Lake will bring me in the coming months.”

“The Madison Boulder is the largest glacial erratic in New England and is one of the largest in the world weighing in at over 11 million pounds!”

“Living in Minneapolis, the conditions had to be absolutely perfect to even get a chance to see the night sky.”

“It feels like ice out officially starts spring here at the SLA. Friday, April 8th marked the official ice out day, where there was sufficient passage all the way across the Squam Lake and Little Squam.”

“I’ve poked around a handful of sugar shacks and done a fair bit of stove-top boiling on my family’s wood stove myself over the years, and missing out on this time-honored tradition while off at college these past four years has sometimes had me a bit down in the dumps, so it was really nice being able to immerse myself in the maple mania again while serving here in New Hampshire.”