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\f0\fs24 \cf0 Actually, I grew up in Puerto Rico, and I was introduced to the natural
world by my father and we did a lot of fishing when I was a young kid and I developed interest
in natural history that way. I attended college in Puerto Rico to learn about tropical systems
and I had an opportunity to come to the Fish and Wildlife Service through a student on-the-job-trainee
(which then became what we call the student career program of the Fish and Wildlife Service).
I've had a lot of great opportunities, a lot of great mentors in the Fish and Wildlife
Service and I have become a Senior Executive Service Servant as a result of all those mentors,
as a result of all the great training programs that we have in the Fish and Wildlife Service.
The great opportunities that anyone that comes to the Fish and Wildlife Service to work with
us will have in the future and so it's a great place to work, it's a greater agency and our
mission speaks volumes. We don't do this for the money, we do it for the mission. }