U.S. Forest Service Fourteeners Tech Resource Assistant

Company: MobilizeGreen
Location: Bozeman
Posted on: March 17, 2020

Job Description:

Join us. Do work that matters!In partnership with the Pike and San Isabel National Forests Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands of the USDA Forest Service, MobilizeGreen seeks a 26-week Fourteeners Tech Resource Assistant (RA) Intern to help with monitoring restoration projects on 49 of Colorado's 54 - 14,000 foot mountains on or accessed through National Forest lands. The 2020 program of work includes restoration projects on Mt. Elbert (two routes on Colorado's highest peak), Mt. Columbia, Kit Carson Peak, and Pikes Peak. The work requires extensive backcountry travel, backpacking and camping in remote backcountry settings - 5 days per week, the ability to hike and work off-trail at altitude on excessively steep side slopes and loose talus slopes. Colorado's fifty-four 14,000-foot peaks'commonly known as the "Fourteeners"'include peaks easily accessed by urban visitors, as well as remote backcountry peaks that provide a wilderness experience. More than 311,000 visitor-use days occur on these peaks yearly. Hikers seek out expansive vistas, solitude, or merely opportunities to get outside and have meaningful connections with the outdoors on 220 miles of trails on the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre & Gunnison, Rio Grande, Arapaho and Roosevelt, Pike and San Isabel, San Juan, and White River National Forests.Location: Pike and San Isabel National Forests Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands, 2840 Kachina Drive, Pueblo, CO 81008Term:

• 26 weeks
• Full Time/40 hours per weekBenefits:
  • $500 per week living allowance (stipend)
  • Hands on learning and job training experience
  • Site travel stipend eligible
  • $1000 per month housing stipend
  • 2-year direct hiring certificate with the Forest Service (with successful completion and 960 hours)
  • Health insurance eligible
  • Mentorship for career and professional developmentDuties and Responsibilities:
    • Assist the program manager in previewing & monitoring five fixed-site trail construction & restoration projects on Mt. Elbert (two routes on Colorado's highest peak), Mt. Columbia, Kit Carson Peak, and Pikes Peak.
    • Assist partnering organizations throughout the field season to ensure compliance with NEPA decisions and construction/restoration design.
    • Work with the program manager to design trail construction/restoration & reconstruction projects on five mountains (Pikes Peak, Castle Peak, Mt. Shavano/Mt. Tabeguache, and Mt. Princeton).
    • Explore for out-year projects will occur on Mt. Lindsey & Snowmass Mountain.Experience and Qualifications:
      • Degree: Preference for a Bachelor's degree in a Natural Resource or related field;
      • WildernessFirst Aidcertification;
      • Ability tomaintainwrittenrecords;knowledge ofGeographicalInformationSystems,including skillsand abilitieswith Survey123programingand datacollection andArcGISprograms andmapping;
      • Strongcomputer skillswith emphasison MS Excel;
      • Knowledge of recreationand wilderness trail maintenance, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and construction processes;
      • Ability to useand maintainstandardforestrytechnicianequipment,tools, andinstruments;
      • Ability tocommunicateeffectivelyverbally and inwriting;
      • Abilitytobackpacklong distancesand tent campfor extendedperiods;
      • Goodfitness withability to hike& work for upto 10 hours ataltitudesbetween10,200 to14,433 feetabove sealevel.Work Environment:The work requires extensive backcountry travel, backpacking and camping in remote backcountry settings - 5 days per week, the ability to hike and work off-trail at altitude on excessively steep side slopes and loose talus slopes. Car strongly recommended.TO APPLY:Only applications submitted throughwith a resume and cover letter attached will be considered.We will not review applications through this or any other platform.TO APPLY:https://mobilizegreen.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=160For additional positions, see.

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