Posts from — May 2009

You can listen to Jessica Schley interview me.  We discuss my sabbatical, how I came to learn about the Land Trust Alliance, and my different jobs at the Alliance over the years.

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Notes: Intro and outgo music is from Tempest (de havilland vampire) by The Brothers Femme.

My first podcast.  Jessica Schley is a student at University of California – Berkeley, and interned at the Land Trust Alliance for the past few months.  She has a great passion for land conservation.

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Notes: Putting this first podcast togehter has been a great learning experience. I made a mistake with the audio editing software and had to start over at one point, so I don’t think I will make that same mistake again. Please provide feedback in the comments on the interview or on the podcast. I like the song played at the begining and end Tempest (de havilland vampire) by The Brothers Femme, but I think the selection for intro might be too slow.

As the countdown clock on the side of my blog indicates, there is less than one month until my peregrinations begin.   My itinerary needs to be updated, and there are a few more land trusts I still need to contact, but for the most part everything is falling into place.

Each of the land trusts I have contacted has been wonderfully enthusiastic about my plans to visit with them.   My coworkers have also been very helpful and supportive (but maybe they are just happy to get rid of me for two months).

Yesterday I recorded my first interview with Jessica Schley.   Jessica is an American Studies and Conservation and Resource Studies double major at UC Berkeley.   Her internship was with the Public Policy department here at the Alliance.   She has a powerful passion for land conservation that emanates from her connection to her family’s ranch in California.

After talking with her, she turned the tables and asked me a number of questions.

I plan to get the podcast up this weekend.