My conservation career wasn't very straightforward. I graduated with a B.S. in Ecology way back in 2013 and spent 7 years working at an animal shelter caring for cats, dogs, etc. I needed a change and wanted to get back into conservation work. Over the last year, I worked as an ACE fellow on a project for the Division of Realty at the US Fish and Wildlife Service that involved going through hundreds of legacy files related to all the land Region 3 has acquired to date!