Job Shadow Project
Fish & Wildlife Biologist: Emily Jernigan & John Hammond
Business/Agency Description
The agency that I went to go visit was a federal employed agency. The place I was dropped of at was a small building, outside there were cars that had the agency logo. What the agency does is go around North Carolina looking at properties where there are endangered animals, they verify permits and record down data that is needed to keep track of the animal. The U.S. Fishery and Wildlife Service main goal is to work with others to protect, conserve and enhance wildlife, fish and plants and there habitats, while working and coming to accordance with citizens around.
Looking through Binoculars
In the photograph above I am looking through some binoculars, they have provided for us, we are searching for new cavities the Red-cockaded Woodpecker could have potential started.
Looking through Binoculars
The photograph above was taken from a different angle, but doing the same thing as the picture to the left.
Observing an old tree
In this picture I am looking at the tree as John explains how the trees used to be used just for the sap to make tar in the industrial times.
Employee Description
John Hammond I would say was the lead in this job shadow based on his years of experience but Emily Jernigan was recording all the data down. John responsibilities are to A get everyone there safe and B to tell Emily what there is to write down. John's is known as the bird man he can tell you every little thing there is to know about birds, when he hears a bird he can tell you what bird it is. Emily has a greater responsibility in my opinion she has record all data down, during the job shadow she recorded all the trees down and had to calculate down where the lot started and ended and also had to draw the dot in the lot down. When we went to meet with a potential demolish she did most of the talking and she had also stated that in the office she wrote a lot of the approvals and denial reports down.
Emily Jernigan
In the picture above, Emily is recording the diameter of trees on a black lot map because the property owner wanted to build a house but needed clearance from U.S. Fishery & Wildlife. There was a Red-cockade woodpecker near by and many large long leaf pine trees, that could be conserved.
John Hammond
In this photograph John is looking at the bark of the long leaf pine where the Red-cockade woodpecker lives, he is explaining to us how the tree was used to make tar. John cares around a camera to take pictures of the tree cavities and an bird that is spotted.
Facility
This photograph shows there working facility, outside, John & Emily work mostly near the coast and anywhere there has been spotting of the Red-cockade woodpecker.