AgriLife still does the bird surveys and the last guy looked homeless.
Naah, that weren’t me but coulda been. I actually quit that gig, $20/hour to ride around on my dirt bike and watch birds on Bullis, the whole area reserved for me
‘Cept for the one time I was standing out in the LZ, wearing my red vest and holding a clipboard when a C 130 flew over and guys started jumping out in parachutes, landing all around.
As cool as that was the time I was in Area 9 just over the ridge from the machine gun range. IIRC They were shooting at old trucks, I got to hear incoming, everything backwards, starting with the rounds hitting steel
Can’t believe I quit after a few years but I did. It was taking all my weekends, mid March through July 4th, away from spending them with my family.
It weren’t AgriLife back then but a private Contractor.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
