Marlee Fuller

Hi folks! I’m the Park Interpreter at False Cape State Park so when I’m not blogging you might see me out leading a kayak paddle or answering questions in our visitor center!

I’m originally from a small college town in northern New York (about 30 minutes from the Canadian border) and was incredibly lucky to grow up surrounded by forests and rivers. I’m definitely the one with the travel bug in my family, and as a result I’ve lived in many different places around the country. I’ve lived in cities like Cambridge, MA and Mobile, AL and rural locales like Beaver, OK and Morgan City, LA.

My jobs have been just as varied as my living situations. I graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, and I have a master’s degree in Wildlife and Fisheries from Mississippi State University. With those degrees, I have been a high school biology and environmental science teacher, a field tech working with clapper rails and prairie chickens, and I even worked a desk job once as a fisheries grant administrator. Recently though, I found my calling as a Park Interpreter, first at Yosemite National Park and now at False Cape!

Outside of work I love to go birding, and I’m delving deeper into the world of wildlife photography. I was recently incredibly humbled to win the Fisher Prize in the 2020 National Audubon Society photo contest with a photo of an American Dipper I saw in Yosemite. My wife and I currently live in Portsmouth, VA in a neat historic house with three dogs, three (indoor only) cats, and one beta fish.