Welcome, Melissa Fitzgibbon!

By Daniel Barringer, Preserve Manager.

Photo: Daniel Barringer

We would like to introduce the new long-term intern in Land Stewardship and Environmental Education at Crow’s Nest Preserve, Melissa Fitzgibbon.

Melissa holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from Elizabethtown College, and has come to us most recently as the Volunteer Coordinator for AmeriCorps and The Lands Council in Spokane, Washington, where she led volunteers in riparian buffer plantings and street tree plantings and performed outreach. Before that she was the Invasive Species Intern with the Student Conservation Association and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.

She has experience in lesson planning and working with students. Later, as an intern with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, she also collected field data and engaged in land management as an intern.

Melissa is no stranger to Natural Lands, having volunteered at Cheslen Preserve doing trail maintenance. She will be living and working at Crow’s Nest for the next 11 months as she splits her time between Environmental Education and Land Stewardship.

Please join me in welcoming Melissa when you see her on the preserve.