Emily Bishop, a senior at Ohio Wesleyan University, served as a 2017 Utah Forests Program intern based out of Castle Valley, Utah. Her 10 weeks with the Trust included an extraordinary amount of field work. She documented mountain goat impacts above 11,000’ in the La Sal Mountains and measured seedhead presence and absence in 100+ degree heat on lands involved in the La Sal Sustainability Collaboration. She hiked up into the remote Big Bowns Bench allotment of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to help record the nature of recovery after 20 years of no cattle grazing. In Fishlake National Forest, she completed a photo project along Pine Creek. Emily prepared a Guide to Key Exotic Grasses on Southern Utah Public Lands, which will be especially useful for Trust volunteers, interns, and others who visit Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service lands and wish to understand their condition. On her days off, Emily was hiking in national parks, monuments, and other public lands. Emily plans to work in conservation in the future.