Description:
Schedule: 80 hours a week will be provided bi-weekly.
Housing: No Housing Available
Dates: 05-03-2023 - 08-09-2023
Agency: National Park Service
Location: Pipe Spring National Monument
Overview:
The selected intern will work with and learn alongside several Resource Management Divisions within the park: Native Vegetation, Exotic Vegetation, and Wildlife. Intern will typically work with each separate group 1-2 days/week on a rotation.
Responsibilities:
Native Vegetation: Intern will learn about collecting, processing, counting, and cleaning native plant seed, transplanting or salvaging plants, weeding, caging, mulching, watering plants and raking in seed at field restoration sites, and closing social trails. Exotic Vegetation: Assist the exotic crew with inventorying and treating invasive plants in a front and back country-setting. Treatments include hand-pulling plants with gloves or tools, spraying herbicide from a 4 gallon backpack sprayer while traversing a wide range of terrain for hours at a time. May have the opportunity to camp in a back-country setting with the crew to assist in projects away from the main canyon. Will also assist with data collection utilizing GPS mapping devices to inventory and record treatment and weather data. Wildlife: Intern will be mostly engaged in office work associated with sorting legacy files, publications, and data.
Qualifications:
Intern must be able to work in teams and independently. Intern must be able to hike over uneven and steep terrain, and engage in some heavy physical labor in all weather conditions, including temperatures over 100 degrees F. Intern must be able to pass a federal background investigation.