"I worked at Wehr while I was in high school and then summers during my undergraduate degree. This was an influential time in my life as I decided where I would attend higher ed and what I would specialize in. Wehr's Land Manager at the time connected me with a professor who would become my undergraduate advisor and that advisor connected me with the person who would supervise my graduate work. My work at Wehr in the summer after my first year at university involved helping a graduate student study the plants in the woodlands. This experience helped solidify my career path in biology/natural resources research. My first peer reviewed scientific publication (my undergraduate honors thesis) was on the vegetative changes in Wehr's College Woods."