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

• Hudson Valley AmeriCorps
• Massachusetts AmeriCorps
• New Hampshire Conservation Corps
• Adirondack AmeriCorps
• Salmon-Challis AmeriCorps
• Native Plant Corps
• Desert Restoration Corps
• Trail  Corps
• Sustainability Corps
• Wildland Fire Corps

Hudson Valley AmeriCorps

Created in 1999, the Hudson Valley AmeriCorps Program 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 

• Environmental Educator at NYS Taconic Regional Office (5 months)
• Bird Educator/ Conservation Intern at the Central Office (5 months)
• Archaeology Steward at Bear Mountain State Park (5 months)
• Assistant Environmental Educator at Moreau Lake State Park (5 months)

January 2010

• Water Quality Coordinator at NY State Central Office (10 Months)
• Biodiversity/Invasive Species Field Coordinator at Minnewaska State Park Preserve (10 Months)
• GIS Technician at NY State Central Office (10 Months)
• Environmental Educator at Clay Pit Ponds State Park (10 Months)
• Biodiversity Intern at Bear Mountain State Park (10 Months)
• Zookeeper/Educator at Bear Mountain State Park’s Trailside Museum and Zoo (10 Months)
• Environmental Educator at Minnewaska State Park Preserve (10 Months)
• Public Relations Intern at NY State Taconic Regional Office (10 Months)
• Environmental Educator at Taconic Outdoor Education Center (10 Months)
• Assistant Park Naturalist & Program Coordinator at Grafton Lakes State Park (10 Months)
• Assistant Park Naturalist at Saratoga Spa State Park (10 Months)

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.

May 2010 *coming soon

September 2009 (all Filled)

• Grand Canyon National Park
• Cibola National Wildlife Refuge
• Imperial National Wildlife Refuge
• Sevilleta/Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge
• San Andres/ White Sands National Wildlife Refuge
• Southwest Exotic Plant Management Team

AmeriCorps Residential Corps

We now 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. Find out more details about one of our Residential programs here: New Hampshire Conservation Corps

Adirondacks AmeriCorps

May/June 2010
Trail Team

Massachusetts AmeriCorps

Overview

June 2010
Trail Team Berkshires

February/March 2010
Trail Team Hawley
Trail Team Central
Outreach and Trail Interns Central (filled)
Outreach and Trail Intern Berkshires

October 2009
Education and Trail team (filled)

New Hampshire Conservation Corps

January 2010
Environmental Education and Trail Team
Environmental Educators and Interpretive Rangers
High School Program Leader

June 2009 (Filled)
Sanctuaries and Conservation Intern
Garden and Community Outreach Intern
Visitor Services Intern
River Resource Management Intern
Interpretive Ranger

Salmon-Challis AmeriCorps Forest Training Center

April 2010
Trail Restoration Team  (coming soon!)

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 *coming soon

October 2009 (Filled)

• Ridgecrest- Jawbone
• Ridgecrest- Rand Mountains
• Ridgecrest- El Paso
• Yuha Desert- Yuha
• California WildCorps
• Restoration Monitoring team

Trail Corps

The Goal of the SCA Conservation Corps Trails Program 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.

May 2010

• Backcountry Trail Team (12 to 16 weeks)
  Each Team will be located in one of the following locations:
  • Pisgah NF, North Carolina
  • Humboldt Toiyabe (various locations throughout), California
  • George Washington and Jefferson NF, Virginia
  • Finger Lakes Team, New York and Vermont
  • Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina
• Backcountry Trail Team (22 to 26 weeks)
  Each Team will be located in one of the following locations:
  • WildCorps North (BLM), California

January 2010

• Pacific Crest Trail (2 teams with 5 members each)
• Florida Trails

August/September 2009 (Filled)

• Florida Trail
• Mount Rainier Storm Recovery
• Humboldt- Toiyabe National Forest Wilderness Trail Team
• Boise National Forest

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 Business 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.

Learn more about SCA Firemon

June 2009

• State of North Carolina Education Team

May 2009

• Great Plains South Monitoring Team
• Eastern Oklahoma Traveling Monitoring Team
• Dixie National Forest Monitoring Team
• Great Plains Region Monitoring Intern
• Spokane Washington Monitoring Intern
• Albany Fire Management Team
• Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribe Monitoring Intern
• Menominee Reservation Monitoring Intern
• Northwest Region Office Monitoring Intern

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.