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Teddy Montalvo

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Assorted images of Yellowstone National Park
Teddy Montalvo

Goodbye to Merely Getting By

How time flies! I can hardly believe that the end of my internship has already caught up to me. While I tie up the last loose ends of my summer projects, I am stuck wondering how it all came and went in a flash. Each event, each project, and each outing run through my mind as I do what I can to grasp each one of those experiences tight. Part of me is excited to keep experiencing new things beyond HFF, to apply all the things that I have learned here to another project, but the other part is uncomfortable letting go of an environment that has been so kind to me. It is a feeling I will have to get used to, I fear, as things have only looked up since the (affectionately noted) dark ages of high school. Flowing into the early years of adulthood, I have noticed a lot of little caveats in common phrases. The one I find myself most stuck on is “it’s only up from here.” This sentiment is true, but nobody ever stopped to tell me that sometimes you find a stretch of “up” so beautiful that you wish you could settle for

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Digital illustration of assorted birds: Brown-Head Cowbird, Red-Winged Blackbird, Great Blue Heron, Killdeer, Cinnamon Teal, and a Western Grebe with her baby.
Teddy Montalvo

Meandering

Happy July folks! My name is Teddy Montalvo and I am a rising junior from the University of Montana Western brought to Idaho by the Max S. Baucus Institute. My primary study is Environmental Sustainability with minors in Naturalism and Visual Arts. Hailing from my home town of Terry, Montana, I have adjusted to my new small town living without a hitch. In fact, everyone I have met so far has been more than pleasant and welcoming! It is easy to poke my head around town when there are so many friendly faces both in and beyond the Foundation walls. Already halfway through my 8 weeks with the Henry’s Fork Foundation (which I try not to think too hard about), I have been focused on illustrating water quality concerns the HFF DIRTT Plan aims to address. This, so far, has entailed detailed digital illustration of how factors like turbidity, temperature, and dissolved oxygen affect Island Park Reservoir and the Henry’s Fork downstream. I have invested a lot of time into each part of the process, from understanding the impacts of each factor to finding a way to infuse those ideas into a visual format! Although most of my work requires

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