![]() Lambert packed up and moved across the country. Turns out it was just north of San Francisco. “I said, ‘Sure, that’d be great.’ I got off the phone and, in an age before Internet, got out a map and said, “Where in the world is Muir Woods?’” ![]() Nearly a year went by before the phone rang with an offer of an internship with the Parks Service at a place called Muir Woods. Just before she left, she’d submitted applications to work as an environmental educator at dozens of locations across the country, having put herself through college working as an educator in an afternoon program-but she was prepared to work canning beer for as long as was necessary. On completing her BFA, she fell back on her cannery experience, moving from her hometown of North Port, Alabama to work canning beer at an Anheuser-Busch plant outside Atlanta. “It was so light all year round, the vegetation was completely different, the people I met were from all parts of the United States, and 12-hour shifts sliming fish gave me a real sense of what labor was.” “For someone who’d only been east of the Mississippi, it blew my mind,” Lambert says of Alaska. She’d spied the job in her local paper and applied with few other qualifications than a love of nature and a sense of adventure. When Amy Lambert first set foot in Washington, she never imagined she’d one day return for a master’s degree-let alone to devote nearly two decades to documenting and conserving one of North America’s rarest butterflies.Īt the time, Lambert was merely stopping through-a rising junior pursuing a BFA in Sculpture at Florida State University on her way north to work at a salmon cannery in Alaska. Explore Point Reyes National Seashore and West Marin.Īlso, check out our other article: 7 Sensational California Spring Break Getaways for Families.This entry was posted in Faculty Friday, Spotlight and tagged Faculty Friday, Spotlight.Hike and visit the beach at the Marin Headlands.Take a spring wildflower hike in Marin. ![]()
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