Please help us welcome Sydney Jackson, who was selected to be our five week research student as part of our partner organization Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation’s (@smconservation) Endangered Species Conservation program
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Sydney discovered her love for the environment in high school after taking AP Environmental Science and after graduating from George Mason University this summer, she hopes to find work as a forest conservationist focused on protecting North American forest ecosystems ![🙌](https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tfd/1/16/1f64c.png)
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While here at VOF’s Preserve at Bull Run Mountains, she will be helping our staff continue their exciting ethnobotanical research project. Stay tuned for more updates on that!