I am grateful to work, live, and play on the lands of the Lower Tanana Dene Peoples in Fairbanks, Alaska, who have shaped and stewarded these landscapes for thousands of years before newcomers like myself. This land and the people I have come to know feel like home, and I have gladly expanded my hobbies to include activities that get me outside year round. Skiing into public use cabins, fat biking on trails shared with sled dogs, canoeing break-up season rivers, banding feathery spring migrants, harvesting berries, mushrooms, and birds, sharing my love for catching grayling on the fly, and chasing after the forty-mile caribou herd; the Alaskan calendar is bountiful and I look forward to continue exploring, learning, and working to conserve these opportunities for future generations.