(Kind of) coming back to the Ozarks

[ozark trout fisher]

Life is weird sometimes.

It turns out my new gig based here in Indiana will "require" me to spend quite a bit of time (and by that I mean at least a couple of months, and possibly longer) this spring/summer living and doing research in the Ozarks. It's totally by chance, and while I knew I'd be traveling a lot and spending time out of state, I didn't know I'd end up pretty much back where I started, at least for awhile, just a few months after I left. .

The nature of my work dictates that I'll be spending a lot of time in the hills of the Current River and Black River watersheds...and while I will have to work pretty long and hard hours, you'd be nuts to consider the possibility that I won't take advantage of the opportunity to get on some of my old rivers and creeks.

I am pretty amped.

[snagged in outlet 3]

19 minutes ago, ozark trout fisher said:

The nature of my work

What do you do?

[ozark trout fisher]

18 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

What do you do?

The most broad, but also the most honest answer, is that I research forested ecosystems. I do a fairly wide variety of things under that umbrella, both in my current job and when I worked more permanently in the Ozarks.

[Ketchup]

Who could pass that up.  

[fishinwrench]

7 hours ago, ozark trout fisher said:

The most broad, but also the most honest answer, is that I research forested ecosystems. 

That's interesting ?

For the benefit of whom?

[ozark trout fisher]

10 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

That's interesting ?

For the benefit of whom?

A good question and hard to answer.

But mostly some combination of the trees, the wildlife that need the trees, and the people who make money cutting down the trees. It may or may not be in that order. I'm just happy to be getting paid to spend vast quantities of time in the woods. A pretty danged good gig, though it won't threaten to make me rich anytime soon. 

Thankfully, as the rare person in this world who is NOT a government employee I can still mostly speak my mind.

[Mark]

Need any help??:)