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  • LEAF intern Adaeze Omekam watches Milkweed Tussock Moth caterpillars enjoy a Milkweed plant at TNC’s Lewis Farm on Block Island in Rhode Island.
  • Moody Forest Natural Area in eastern Georgia.
  • LEAF interns practice seining to discover what lives just off the shore of Cape May, New Jersey.
  • LEAF student and others studying culverts in Maine.
  • LEAF interns enjoy learning about the creatures that live just off shore of Block Island in Rhode Island.
  • LEAF intern Keon Flavius rides a horse for the first time at Carpenter Ranch in northwest Colorado.
  • After a day’s work, LEAF interns enjoy their free time at “home” in Moody Forest Natural Area in eastern Georgia.
  • Desiree, Jamee and Taylor help remove weeds from the cranberry nursery beds at the Orchard Bog Preserve in Shady Valley, Tennessee.
  • LEAF interns Kenia Cohetero, Evita Benavides and Deborah Gbadamosi with their mentor Melissa Miles learn how to make peach jelly at the home of TNC’s Verde Conservation Project Manager Kim Schonek in Arizona.
  • Carpenter Ranch was one of the sites hosting LEAF interns in 2011.
  • Colorado LEAF interns Raymond Rodriguez, Keon Flavius and Sky Strang help construct a deck at Carpenter Ranch.
  • High school girls from New York and New Jersey work to clean up and record the trash at the beach as part of their LEAF internship in Cape May, New Jersey.
  • LEAF interns Keon Flavius, Raymond Rodriguez and Sky Strang enjoy a day rafting down the Colorado River.
  • LEAF intern Deborah Gbadamosi records data collected during an invasive mapping project at TNC's Otter Water property in Arizona's Verde Valley.
  • Verde Conservation Project Manager Kim Schonek leads LEAF interns Kenia Cohetero, Evita Benavides and Deborah Gbadamosi with their mentor Melissa Miles on a hike through a portion of Hartwell Canyon Preserve near Sedona, Arizona.
  • LEAF interns spend the day adding boundary markers to Broxton Rocks Preserve in southeast Georgia.
  • LEAF interns Desiree, Jamee and Taylor hike up Roan Mountain to visit ecologist Jamey Donaldson and his herd of goats who are working to restore the grassy balds habitat.
  • LEAF interns at Moody Forest Natural Area in eastern Georgia.
  • The red Milkweed Beetle (Tetraopes tetraophthalmus) enjoys a leaf of a Milkweed plant on TNC’s Lewis Farm on Block Island in Rhode Island.
  • LEAF students enjoy a recreational day at Old Orchard Beach after studying culverts in rural Maine.
  • LEAF intern standing in a cranberry bed.
  • LEAF interns perform trail maintenance along a trail close to the Maurice River near Millville, New Jersey.
  • LEAF interns Ada Omekam, Chantia Sulph and Nini Mark with their mentor Eryn Whitfield at “home” on Block Island in Rhode Island.
LEAF Interns
Class of 2011