I was part of an ACE Crew in 2021 doing ecological restoration and trail work. I love being in close proximity to nature, so much so that it inspired a career shift from HR and marketing to conservation / ecological restoration. Born and raised in Southern California and currently living in the small mountain town of Big Bear, CA. When she’s not working or studying, Chandler can be found either traveling the west to rock climb or enjoying local trails and coffee shops in Boise, her favorite city and home base of several years. She is excited to be joining the NRCS Idaho Wetland Reserve Easement program as an Easement Technician. She is currently pursuing a Master’s of Natural Resource Stewardship with a specialization in Rangeland Ecology and Management from Colorado State University with the desire to pivot her career toward riparian area conservation on semi-arid rangelands.
Chandler’s interests are a marriage of riparian ecology and rangeland management. She continued on to be a Range Technician with the BLM in southern Arizona, followed by two Natural Resource Specialist positions in eastern Oregon and northern Nevada where she was focused on vegetation and riparian area monitoring and assessments as well as post-wildfire rehabilitation. Having graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science in Geography, she worked as a GIS Technician 5/22 with the BLM in eastern Arizona, where she developed her interest in rangeland management. spatial and particular locations), linguistic methodologies to study cultural concepts and a human worldview and all in tandem with her specialization in Maritime Archaeology, which aims to understand and interpret the past relationships between humans and WATER.Ĭhandler started her natural resources career working for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Arizona, Oregon, and Nevada. Jennifer used archaeology/museology methodologies to organize data and note patterns (esp. Jennifer’s background is in underwater cultural heritage of the Asia Pacific Region. These practices involve work with community-based archaeology to expand the stories in the webs of relations of past experiences to include the animals, the spirits, and the other-than-human beings with traditional scientific rigor. These islands’ oral histories share sensory experiences of immersion in place, and when engaged in these stories Jennifer evokes heart-centered practices. These World War II focused parks work to share the stories of the conflict in the Pacific as told by those who experienced it on these islands.
Jennifer works with Rangers and Chamoru on Mariana Islands Wartime Experiences through Oral Histories, which is placed with War in the Pacific National Historical Park in Guam and American Memorial Park on Saipan. Jennifer is an NPS Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow with the American Conservation Experience.
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