This is a paid internship with our award-winning Conservation and Land Management Internship Program, a partnership between the Chicago Botanic Garden, Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service. This position will remain open for recent college graduates until filled.
Botanical skills are needed to identify plant species and collect herbarium specimens. The successful candidate must be able to conduct fieldwork independently and as part of a team at remote sites. Additional skills needed include map-reading, hiking, and operating a 4-wheel drive vehicle; ability to document sensitive plant locations using a GPS unit and to download files into GIS. Duties include: Monitoring of BLM sensitive plant populations (Chaenactis stevioides, Ipomopsis polycladon, Astragalus purshii v. ophiogenes, Lepidium papilliferum, Glyptopleura marginata, Pediocactus simpsonii, Eriogonum shockleyi v. shockleyi, Eriogonum ochrocephalum v. calcareum, and one sensitive soil lichen.); Inventory sensitive plant species habitat for occurrence (L. papilliferum, Astragalus tetrapterus, A. atratus var. inseptus, A. yoder-williamsii, Erigeron latus, Phacelia minutissima, Eriogonum palmerii, and several species of sensitive soil lichens); Plant specimen collection for inclusion in the Jarbidge Herbarium; Plant photo collection for use in the Idaho BLM plant photo archive and the National PLANTS database; vegetation community mapping; Biological soil crust community data collection; Fire Transect Monitoring in five vegetation communities (serviceberry, mountain mahogany, bitterbrush, ceanothus, aspen) and three burn intensities (high, medium, low); and Riparian monitoring. For further program information and how to apply, please visit our website: http://www.chicagobotanic.org/research/training/clm_internship
