Oh valentines day...I had almost forgotten about it until I got to work and Rich asked why I wasn't wearing red. How do you tell the happily married boss that you despise this day? You don't, instead you let them tell you about their v-day plans. This took up some time, but it was nice to get to know Rich better. I've usually been one of those people who tries to keep extremely professional in job positions because I'm always concerned with getting too comfortable and saying something that makes me worry to list them as a reference. But I've learned that getting to know people is part of the networking and it makes the work environment much better.
Seeing as its midterm check in time for my internship, it was time to discuss my senior project. I am required to do a senior project as part of my graduation requirement. Rich had recently discussed some ideas about personalizing the Conservation Plan folder and making it more visually appealing. There was also an idea about creating a visual and easy friendly guide to various land problems and practices that could be installed. Another option would be helping the RCD with their livestock meeting. They were in need of a poster or information publication about the noxious weeds for horses. Ideally, this would be done in poster size and hung in barns to help ranchers know the weed as well as the symptoms their horses were showing. This would also have some advice on how to avoid bringing these weeds in such as importing your hay.
I also worked on some HEL forms or the erosion forms for some farms. The government doesn't want to give money to people if they are going to be farming on highly erosive land. I had tried to do HEL forms before but got confused and was unable to ask Rich to go through it again. This time I made sure I had it down. Basically, it involves finding where the farm is, what soils there are, whats their permability, slope, and slope length. After doing 3 of these, I think I finally have it down, though it requires a field visit to know the slope of the field.
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