Conservation Corps Member: Field Trails & Habitat

Comunidade Metodista; Fletcher (NC); Sur place; USD 505 000 - 630 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Housing during term

Food on project days

Education Award potential

Résumé du poste

American Conservation Experience seeks ACE AmeriCorps Members for on-site service in Asheville, NC, with projects across the Eastern Region. Members perform physically demanding fieldwork, participate in habitat restoration, trail work, and preservation activities, and collaborate with federal and state land managers.

You will gain practical field skills, leadership development, and the experience of working alongside mentors from partner agencies, with housing provided and a focus on outdoor

Qualifications

• Applicants must be capable of performing physically demanding labor on environmental and conservation projects for 10 hours a day.
• Expect hiking extended distances on rough terrain carrying up to 40 lbs.
• Prepare to spend 8 consecutive days in the field on each project.

Responsabilités

• Habitat restoration
• Trail construction and maintenance
• Dry and wet stone masonry
• Reforestation
• Forest thinning
• Plant identification
• Fencing
• Invasive species removal
• Swamping
• Historic Preservation

Description du poste

American Conservation Experience seeks ACE AmeriCorps Members for on-site service in Asheville, NC, with projects across the Eastern Region. Members perform physically demanding fieldwork, participate in habitat restoration, trail work, and preservation activities, and collaborate with federal and state land managers.

You will gain practical field skills, leadership development, and the experience of working alongside mentors from partner agencies, with housing provided and a focus on outdoor