Since 1938, Great Mountain Forest has employed a select group of forestry undergraduates from around the country to spend an intensive summer immersed in all aspects of forest management.

The impact of this experience is illustrated through the careers of the hundreds of men and women interns who spent a summer at GMF. Interns have gone on to a range of forestry-related professions, including professors of forestry, forest firefighters, and foresters and loggers.

For an example of the generational impact of the GMF Forest Intern Program consider Lukas Hyder (GMF intern 1992) now Executive Director of the 4,000-acre White Memorial in Litchfield, CT. The director of the intern program when Lukas was an intern in 1992 was the current GMF Forester Emeritus Jody Bronson. Bronson in turn got his start at GMF as an intern in 1976 under the direction of Darrell Russ, father of current GMF forester and Property Manager Russell Russ. The chain of forestry knowledge continues on today.

GMF forester Matt Gallagher, Director of Programs and Operations, now directs the internship program where three forestry students spent the summer of 2023.