Conservation Corps
As a Corps member, you don’t just follow the pros. You become a pro. And, you don’t work alone. Corps are teams. As a member, you’ll live and work with like-minded individuals who share a connection to the land and the people who live there.
Corps members spend 3-10 months devoted to critical environmental issues such as wildfire management and education, trail restoration and maintenance, environmental education, and invasive species eradication. This is a great opportunity to give back while you learn from the land on the land. Join the many SCA Corps volunteers who know, there’s work to be done. Teamwork. Leadership. This is real get-your-hands-dirty conservation.
Programs
- SCA Hudson Valley
- SCA Massachusetts
- SCA New Hampshire
- SCA Adirondacks
- SCA Idaho
- Native Plant Corps
- Desert Restoration Corps
- Trail Corps
- Sustainability Corps
- Wildland Fire Corps
SCA Hudson Valley
Created in 1999, the SCA Hudson Valley is dedicated to recognizing, preserving and interpreting the nationally significant historical, cultural and natural resources of New York's Hudson Valley. The program is a unique blend of SCA's Conservation Internship model and its Conservation Corps model. Interns are individually placed at state agencies and local non-profits and work one-on-one alongside conservation professionals. Interns also participate in trainings, service projects and celebrations with 25+ fellow corps members once each month. Between the personalized attention of site supervisors and the general support of the SCA Hudson Valley intern community, we like to say our program offers you the best of both worlds!
May/June 2010
- Parks and Preserves Assistan at Scenic Hudson
- Land Stewardship & Research Intern at Vassar Farm & Ecological Preserve
- Environmental Educator at Sharpe Reservation, Fresh Air Fund
- Stewardship and Ecological Management Intern at the Nature Conservancy
- Catskills Invasives Species Intern at the Nature Conservancy
March/April 2010
- Assistant Trail Builder with Appalachian Trail
- Teaching the Hudson Valley Program Assistant at Hudson River Valley Greenway
- Website, Programs and Outreach Assistant at Rockland County SWMA
- Education and Outreach Assistant at Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority
- Stewardship and Ecological Management Intern at the Nature Conservancy
February 2010
Native Plant Corps
SCA's Native Plant Corps engages young adults in meaningful service learning opportunities to support resource managers in the restoration of native plant communities. Native Plant focuses on many different aspects including: inventory & monitoring, invasive plant control, seed collection, propogation, revegetation, herbaria and public outreach.
September 2010
- Grand Canyon (coming soon)
May 2010
- Botany Restoration Team (5 teams)
Each Team will be located in one of the following locations:
C&O Canal National Historic Park, Maryland (2 teams)
Olympic National Park, Washington
Kentucky Fish & Wildlife
Southeast Exotic Plant Management, traveling in Southeast region
Superior National Forest (2 teams)
We have four residential programs. The locations are Adirondacks, NY; Bear Brook State Park, NH; Kenneth Dubuque State Forest, MA, and our newest is in Salmon-Challis National Forest in Idaho. Each program has 10 or more members all living together on state lands. The NH and MA teams start in late fall/early winter and work with area schools with environmental education. When the seasons change to spring/summer, Adirondacks and Salmon-Challis gear up and all four teams go out into the field to work on trails and restoration. Find out more details about one of our Residential programs here: SCA New Hampshire
SCA Adirondacks
May/June 2010
Trail Team
SCA Massachusetts
Overview
October 2010
Education and Trail Team
June 2010
Trail Team Berkshires
February/March 2010 (Filled)
Trail Team Hawley
Trail Team Central
Outreach and Trail Interns Central
Outreach and Trail Intern Berkshires
SCA New Hampshire
April 2010
NH Parks Interpreters
January/February 2010
Environmental Education and Trail Team
Environmental Educators and Interpretive Rangers (filled)
High School Program Leader (filled)
School and Garden Educator (filled)
SCA Idaho
April 2010
Restoration Team
Desert Restoration Corps
The Desert Restoration Corps (DRC) began in 1999 as a five week high school program conducting desert restoration in Wilderness areas of Southern California. Since then, the DRC has grown and now we work with up to seven field offices for the Bureau of Land Management throughout the California Desert District. With volunteer members in the field year round we have facilitated the processes of natural regrowth of thousands and thousands of acres of desert habitat.
June 2010
- Historic Cabin Restoration Team
- Inyo National Forest
- Restoration in High Schells Wilderness in Humboldt - Toiyabe National Forest
SCA Trail Corps
The Goal of the SCA Trails Corps is to provide meaningful opportunities to volunteers, while effectively preserving and enhancing trail corridors and historic sites on our public lands. We do the dirty work. We build turnpikes and bridges, water bars, and check steps, retaining walls and stairs, all so that others may have the opportunity share our enjoyment of the natural world, while minimizing their impact to these precious lands. We do this, so future generations can safely enjoy these areas, just as we have.
July 2010
Pacific Crest Trail (2 teams) Residents of CA, OR and WA only
May 2010
- Backcountry Trail Team (12 to 16 weeks)
Each Team will be located in one of the following locations:- Humboldt Toiyabe (various locations throughout), California
- George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, Virginia (local candidates only)
- Umatilla National Forest, OR (4 teams local candidates encouraged)
- Santa Fe National Forest, NM (2 teams)
- Backcountry Trail Team (18 to 26 weeks)
Each Team will be located in one of the following locations:- George Washington and Jefferson National Forest, Virginia (3 teams)
- Pisguah National Forest, NC (local candidates only)
- Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina (local candidates only)
- Finger Lakes Team, New York and Vermont
Sustainability Corps
Creating better community with the environment in mind is what the Sustainability Corps is all about. For 2009 we will have two SCA sustainability projects: the Green Cities Project, based in Pittsburgh, PA and the Pennsylvania Trail Towns Corps, working with towns, businesses and residents along the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail to become greener and grow.
January/February 2010
- Green Cities Sustainability Community Intern
- Green Cities Sustainability City Intern
- Green Cities Sustainability Business Intern
- Green Cities Sustainability County Intern
- Green Cities Sustainability Intern Green Building Alliance
- Green Cities Sustainable Agriculture Intern
- Green Cities Sustainability Weatherization Intern
- Pennsylvania Trail Towns
Wildland Fire Corps
Wildland Fire consists of three programs: Education, Monitoring and Management. The Fire Education Teams provide Fire Education and Wildland Fire Prevention eduation while working in partnership with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, local Tribes and surrounding Communities. SCA FIREMON teams will use FIREMON protocols, basic vegetation identification techniques, GPS, and GIS to complete an array of projects aimed at protecting natural resource areas. Working in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, SCA Fire Management teams use prescribed fire, fuels reductions, fire effects monitoring (including FIREMON protocols), GPS, and GIS to complete an array of projects aimed at protecting natural resource areas.
May 2010
- Backcountry Monitoring Team, 22-26 weeks
- Dixie National Forest, Utah (filled)
- Wayne National Forest, Ohio
- State of North Carolina Education Team
- California BLM Fire Education and Reduction Teams
If a link does not work, the position may have been filled or canceled. For more information, please contact the SCA Conservation Corps program at 603-543-1700 or email nroyce@thesca.org or search for more positions online.
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