End of the Fiscal Year

I successfully finished my first year with the US Forest Service.  Wow!  I think this is the longest I have ever been in a continuous full time job.  Don't have the itch to leave but our seasonals still have another month.  I might find it odd when I don't leave with them.

End of the 2017 fiscal year came Sept. 30.  There were a lot of projects, inspections, interviews, follow-ups, and reporting (and stress, lots of stress) that came with it.  One of the biggest projects I helped with this summer was our Recreation Residence program.  We have forest land set aside where individuals may build a cabin.  The cabin is their property, but the land is still federal.  There are certain rules (colors, deck size, tidiness) that must be followed to maintain a permit to have a cabin on public land.  My coworker Nancy is in charge of the whole program for our district.  We have 664 cabins in our district alone.  It's more than a full time job for Nancy.

Each cabin is supposed to be inspected once every five years.  Doing a quick search I found cabins that had gone more than 10 years without an inspection.  I set a goal to get completely caught up with cabin inspections.

On Sept. 27, with three days to spare, Nancy and I completed our last 14 cabin inspections.  We were both thrilled.

We completed a total of 320 inspections this summer.  That's got to be a record.  Huzzah!