Contributing writer — Reed Young, Tree Planting High School Intern Every February, my school suspends classes and every student goes into the world and completes a two-week internship. My goal for my internships has been to develop a better understanding of my city. For the past couple years, I have worked in the D.C. public schools, but [...]
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A Summer Well Spent
Contributing Writer – Caroline Michniak, Education Intern While on my way back to the Great Lake State, I pondered my time spent interning at Casey Trees. I am proud of what I accomplished and happy I learned so much about trees. While at Casey Trees I worked in the Education department helping to spread the [...]
Read full postINTERNS GRADUATE, CASEY TREES MOURNS
Oh no…the interns are gone. Check out the photos from their graduation tree care event at Newark Community Garden in NW on our Facebook Fan Page. Total trees watered, miles biked, smiles given, babies kissed and so forth will be calculated in the coming weeks. All we know right now is that we already miss [...]
Read full postINTERN BUZZ – WEEK 7
Contributing Writer – Nina Shallal, Intern We are in the final weeks of the internship and all the interns are beginning to acknowledge this somber fact by exchanging phone number and promises to stay in touch. Otherwise we are continuing to work in the field, maintaining Casey Trees-planted trees and helping with the Urban Forest [...]
Read full postTHE WHEELS ON THE BIKE GO ROUND AND ROUND
Contributing Writer – Karja Hansen, Bike Crew Captain The Casey Trees Water By-Cycle crew has made tremendous strides these past two weeks Jonathan, one of our summer interns who started out never having ridden a bicycle, experienced his first full day of caring for trees by bicycle, riding over 9 miles and watering over 30 [...]
Read full postINTERN BUZZ – WEEK 6
Contributing Writers – Heydi Lovo & Lina Montropoli This week, we did a lot. We continued with the urban tree maintenance watering and mulching on an average 35 trees per day. Thankfully, frequent rain helped the the trees get the 25 gallons of water they need each week to survive. On Tuesday, we had the [...]
Read full postINTERN BUZZ – WEEK 5
Contributing Writer – Jonathan Fuentes, Intern Week 5 and the interns are still strong! This week has been very educational and exiting. Our professional development day was held at the U.S Botanic Garden where we participated in two tours and an urban forestry discussion. It was a great opportunity to learn about a diverse collection [...]
Read full postIntern Buzz – Week Four
Contributing Writer – Evan Douglas, Intern Casey Trees’ Urban Forestry Summer Internship has been a blast. In the past four weeks I have been to so many places in District I never knew existed such as the U.S. Botanic Garden and the National Park Service elm nursery. Without question, the most fun professional development events [...]
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