Tag: usda

• Finding Myself and My Place

  Osterville, Ma Featured in Bartlett Tree Topics – Autumn/Winter 2023 internal employee magazine I still scan rooftops. Hypervigilance is a behavioral pattern that the Global War on Terrorism imprinted on many veterans. A combatant high on a roof can be part of an attack, so scanning for threats helped keep us safe. Habits like this…

  joshmaloneycc

  January 9, 2024

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  Arboriculture, Bartlett Tree Experts, cape cod, combat veteran, crewmenber, forests, growth, Integrated Pest Management, nature, police, PTSD, teamwork, Tree work, trees, usda, veteran, writing

• From Biological Control for the USDA to Tree Climbing

  In the summers of 2021 and 2022, I took an opportunity to intern with Umass’s Department of Conservation at the United States Department of Agriculture. I worked at the Forest Pest Methods Laboratory (FPML) on Joint Base Cape Cod (JBCC), which is part of the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), chiefly APHIS’…

  joshmaloneycc

  October 24, 2023

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  arborist, Asian long horned beetle, cape cod, climber, college, massachusetts, parasitoid, plant health, tree climbing, usda, veteran, wasp