Service to Success Internship takes Moorhead student back to Camp Ripley
When Noah Papenfuss first stepped onto the grounds of Camp Ripley as a 12-year-old, he was just excited to paddle the Mississippi River, crawl across old tanks, and spend a week with friends. He never imagined he’d return more than a decade later, not as a camper, but as an environmental geology intern through Minnesota State Moorhead’s Service to Success Internship — ready to help protect the very land he spent time exploring.
“There’s so much history and life moving around Camp Ripley,” he said. “Even back then, I remember going to the nature center and hearing about wolf tracking and animal populations. It was cool stuff. I just didn’t know it would become relevant later in my life.”
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