Student trainee and paid internship programs have positive results but do little to influence long-term employee diversity in the USDA forest service

• Michael J. Dockry ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael J. Dockry, Sonya S. Sachdeva

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mdockry@umn.edu

  Affiliation Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0395-0525

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• Sonya S. Sachdeva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael J. Dockry, Sonya S. Sachdeva

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Evanston, IL, United States of America

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• Cherie L. Fisher ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CLF, LSK, DHL and LMW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Evanston, IL, United States of America

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• Laura S. Kenefic ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CLF, LSK, DHL and LMW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Orono, ME, United States of America

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• Dexter H. Locke ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CLF, LSK, DHL and LMW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Lynne M. Westphal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ CLF, LSK, DHL and LMW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Evanston, IL, United States of America

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