Not many people can say one of their first conservation jobs overlapped with one of the worst natural disasters to hit a region. Aracelia Skridulis was a SAWS crew member in 2024 and experienced just that when Hurricane Helene came through. Having spent most of her life in western North Carolina, working in the region was already special. She had seen the increased demand for recreation spaces on our forest and the impacts that was having and this was her opportunity to contr