Rikeem Sholes jokes that when he decided to study marine biology, he hadn’t realized he’d have to be outside so much. He grew up in New Orleans in a Black family that wasn’t the outdoorsy type, and it was his job that led him to find happiness in nature. Since 2017 his work as a fish biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has brought him to the Pacific Northwest, where Oregon’s landscape deepened his appreciation for the outdoors. But he noticed something was...
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