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It’s always cool to see your education and workplace come full circle and realize why you worked so hard in school to get here.

Classes start back up in the beginning of September, so my time living in Slave Lake and working for Tolko are coming to an end as well.

If someone would have asked me what I would be doing during my work term for Tolko, writing blog posts on the side would not have been anywhere close to the top 100 things I would have thought of. Even though this internship was very unexpected, working with FPAC and Tolko to create these blog posts has been a wonderful experience.

There are many things which have made my work term at Tolko very enjoyable, and to summarize them I have used the six core values at Tolko to explain my favorite parts.

I’ve decided to start with an introduction to who I am and how I got here for my first post.

The answer is actually pretty simple; these trees are getting planted!

I’m both a southerner and an urbanite; so naturally, you might be wondering how in the world I ended up choosing a career in forestry, and that’s what I’ll be writing about today.

For this blog post I am going to be talking about my daily routine working as a Quality Control Student at the Tolko Athabasca Division.

For daily life in a small town, it is easy to become accustomed to the relaxed pace and the easy commutes.

From a young age I was exposed to forestry and its impacts on a small town.