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Last summer, she worked as the Northwoods Stewardship Center\u2019s Invasive Plant Technician at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuge\/moosehorn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge<\/a>\u00a0in the Northern Maine National Wildlife Refuge Complex (NWRC). Tessa spent a lot of her summer in the field, grid-mapping invasive plant species through an ArcGIS Online app called Collector, to create system-wide maps of invasive plant species at Moosehorn and Aroostook National Wildlife Refuges. During this season, she also had the chance to do some invasive plant control on glossy buckthorn (<em>Frangula alnus<\/em>) and purple loosestrife (<em>Lythrum salicaria<\/em>). Throughout the summer, Tessa also worked with the biology crew on some of their projects; including pest monitoring, bat acoustic monitoring, beaver debris clearing, bumblebee atlasing, passerine, goose and duck banding, and dip netting vernal pools. 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