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 opportunity will fill quickly so we suggest you don't delay.
For the successful candidate, duties will include monitoring terrestrial habitat including the collection, evaluation and reporting of terrestrial wildlife and plant habitat (including Special Status Species, i.e. Sage Grouse, Pygmy rabbit, Mountain Plover, Black-footed ferret, Blowout penstemon) and many other sage steppe dependant species; monitoring areas of gas and oil disturbances to determine the success of reclamation practices and to document the effectiveness of native plant re-establishment; assisting the fire ecologist in monitoring the effects of range and forest improvement projects to determine success of projects; and monitoring changes and effects to plant and wildlife communities as a result of manipulations from fire, chemical and mechanical treatments. The intern will also work with application of shrub/grass vegetation treatments: this will entail aspects of project planning, restoration seed collection, monitoring and assessment of gas and oil related disturbances as well as prescribed fire and range improvement monitoring. Treatments will benefit wildlife species, botanical resources, threatened, endangered or BLM special status species of plants and animals, watershed health, livestock grazing, wild horse habitat and multiple resource needs. Projects will contribute to over 1000 acres that promote growth and/or vigor of sage-steppe, salt desert shrub and or aspen/mountain shrub vegetation types specifically to benefit wild horse and livestock grazing, wildlife /plant habitat and watershed health. Intern involvement will include aspects of project planning, monitoring and environmental assessments, work preparation, supply acquisitions, cleanup at completion, GIS/GPS support, data management, contracts/interagency agreements. Information is used to implemented management goals and objectives at a landscape scale. For further information about this valuable program, please visit our website: www.chicagobotanic.org/research/training/clm_internship To apply please send your resume, cover letter, college transcripts and three letters of recommendation to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
