What Sparked My Interest

Believe it or not I use to hate these kinds of places. About 13 years ago I moved into a house that sat on 3 acers of wooded land. I hated all the trees and bugs that came with it. I began having the trees wiped out three and four at a time. After making a clearing for the backyard, I begun to like being outside. What I did not expect was the close encounters with snakes, groundhogs, raccoons, salamanders, deer, moles and bats but it did not seem to frighten me. I was more fascinated that they came so close to all of us. I was able to get about 5 feet away from a family of raccoons after awhile becaue I kept sitting out food. My nephew and kids were constantly snatching up gardener snakes and frogs, bringing them home to be pets and my husband was baiting in deer with a salt lick. As time went on the more I liked to hike through different woods checking out the animals. Well it was until I started school that I decide that working in a forest would be really cool. The more science coarses I took the more interesting forestry became so I decided to study biology part time. It is more like a hobby for me right now but one day that might change.