Hi Forestry Majors from Adams County, IL: If you are current Forestry major from Adams County, please review this scholarship to see if you qualify to apply. Forestry has been working more closely with the Farm Bureau in recent years, many farms have forested areas which require management plans and treatments. Also more and more […]
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Outreach Hoosier NF GS-0193-07/09 Archaeologist
The Hoosier National Forest is outreaching for a permanent GS-0193-07/09 Archaeologist, located in Tell City, Indiana. Please share with anyone who may be interested. This outreach is to determine interest in the position only, and respondents will be notified via email when the vacancy announcement becomes available. There will be a separate process to apply […]
Attention_Current Students_ Summer 2021 Internships at Rend Lake
Below is the link for the three pathways positions being filled at Rend Lake. This is for current students, and has the potential to turn into a permanent position within the St. Louis District upon graduation. Please disseminate to any students that may be interested. The closing date is sooner than we had originally anticipated, […]
DPW Vacancy Announcement For Forestry Technician GS-0462-07/08/09 Is Now Posted on USAJOBS (UNCLASSIFIED)
Job Posting at Ft. Campbell, KY with a quick turn-around of January 18. Sent to us by a Forestry Alum who is on staff at Ft. Campbell. Good luck everyone. Patti
Job Announcement – Senior Private Land Conservationist – Garden City, Kansas
Please see the attached job announcement for a Senior Private Land Conservationist in Garden City, Kansas with Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever. This position will be located within USDA Service Center and will provide conservation technical assistance and conservation program delivery to private landowners within their assigned districts and other priority areas as appropriate. In […]
Lots of vacancy announcements
Hi Everyone: We were sent 5 job announcements in this mailing. Each is described in brief below. Good luck with your job search. Patti 1)Habitat Specialist with Habitat Forever LLC at the Marais des Cygnes Wildlife Management Area in Pleasanton, Kansas. This position is part of a partnership between Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks […]
Job Announcement – Habitat Specialist – Valley Falls, Kansas
HI Everyone: This annoucemnt looks to be for a different position/location than I sent previously, but the ending date is the same 01/27/21. Good luck with your job search. Patti Kansas Habitat Specialist Perry WMA JD – 2020 Dec.docx
Wildlife Project Coordinator with the National Wildlife Federation
Please, pass along to anyone who may be interested. https://careers.conbio.org/job/310521/wildlife-project-coordinator/ Thank you, Emma Trone IDNR District Wildlife Biologist | Division of Wildlife Resources PO BOX 517 Coffeen, IL 62017 Cell: (618) 944-0290 Office: (217) 537-3352
Fwd: Job Announcement – Habitat Specialist – Valley Falls, Kansas
Please see the attached job description for a Habitat Specialist with Habitat Forever LLC at the Perry Wildlife Management Area in Valley Falls, Kansas. This position is part of a partnership between Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) and Habitat Forever, LLC (HF). The incumbents will conduct habitat management work on public wildlife management areas. They are […]
Four Carrying Capacities in Forest Recreation Management
Introduction to Topography & Landscape in Forest Recreation Resources Management
Example Forest Infrastructure: Beehive Trail at Acadia National Park
Example Summit Sunrise Vista Site Atop Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park
Sunrise vistas are among the most popular activity sites at national forests and parks; the reward-to-effort ratio is typically very high. On the way to a comfortable perch, visitors can cause crowding and conflict by competing for desirable sites. One usual effect is that the trampled extent of the vista viewing area expands radially out […]
Index of 3D Interactive Onsite Google Earth Maps for This Course
Acadia National Park 3D Interactive Onsite Google Earth Map Cache River Valley Wetlands, Illinois, 3D Interactive Onsite Google Earth Map Denali National Park, Alaska, 3D Interactive Onsite Google Earth Map Evergreen Community Model, Illinois, 3D Interactive Onsite Google Earth Map Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, Colorado, 3D Interactive Onsite Google Earth Map Haleakala […]
Example: Food-Attracted Seagull Gives Dr. Park the Side-Eyes at Acadia National Park
Wildlife quickly learn that refined, carb- & fat-rich human foods can replace days of dangerous exertion hunting or foraging for food. Then they also try swallowing things like fishing line, plastic bags, disposable lighters, and mylar food wrappers. Then they die or have to be euthanized. Site: Basalt shoreline south of Thunder Hole, Ocean Drive […]
Wednesday, May 20 Rec Camp Roundup
Federal resume template is going live. Go on a field trip near you! …Provided you feel safe doing so. Record some videos if you do of the things you find. Join us for Zoom debriefs each day. Or don’t and watch the recorded sessions if you need to. Practice your knots, so far including overhand, […]
Example Vista: Sunset at Blue Hill Overlook at Acadia National Park
Blue Hill Overlook is managed as developed frontcountry sacrifice zone: demand is so high to view sunsets here–for 2+ million visitors annually–that heavy use and the associated vegetation & soil impacts are concentrated here to protect other, similarly fragile areas nearby. The use is concentrated onto naturally impact-resistant pink granite bedrock. Ascending Cadillac Mountain Road […]
Woodpeckers searching for cambium-infesting insects create opportunities for other insects
Site: Visitor-Created Trail, Bass Harbor Head, Mount Desert Island Unit, Acadia National Park, Maine, USNPS 44° 13′ 25.68″ N 68° 19′ 55.56″ W Video: Logan Park 2018 3D Interactive Google Earth Onsite
Interpretive Ranger at Acadia National Park confirms that Pathways is by far the easiest way for current and recent graduate forestry students to hire in federally
Interpreting Peregrine Falcon Cliff-Nesting Sites at Acadia National Park
Park staff close the wildly popular via ferrata (off-harness/nontechincal climbing route) Precipice Trail seasonally to protect the peregrine falcon nesting sites using the same cliffline. They also work hard to contact visitors here, armed with spotting scopes, to explain why the trail is closed. Visitors behave much more prosaically once they understand what’s at stake. […]
Alaskan Sled Dogs (Working Animals) demo at Denali National Park
Much of Denali National Park is federally-designated wilderness. Traditional land uses, like Alaskan sled dog travel, are A-OK in wilderness. These dogs, though…let me tell you they’re bred to live like the hottest of hot-blooded racehorses. Intelligent, highly trainable, and completely pants-on-head over the top insanely energetic. I remember these barking as though possessed for […]
Knife-Edge Ridgewalk In Alaskan Wilderness at Denali National Park
One core idea of wilderness is that humans need untamed places to challenge themselves, relax, connect with things greater than themselves. Do you agree? Site: Above Savage River Check Station, Core Wilderness Unit, Denali National Park, Alaska, USNPS 63.7501959 N 149.3146898 W 3D Interactive Google Earth Onsite
Moose Jam at Denali National Park
Forest Wildlife Habitat Managers, this is what your visitors will do when encountering any type of charismatic megafauna. These behaviors can cause tremendous problems if not managed. Done right, though, this is a safe, healthy, and exciting experience for your visitors and protective of the wildlife as well. In this location at Denali NP, visitors […]
Guided Hike Staffed Interpretation Joey Deloian Practice Run, Ozark National Scenic Riverways
Glacial Outwash Plain at Denali National Park
This is the post-glaciated equivalent of a river’s alluvial fan (cone-shaped deposit of coarse fragments / “alluvia”). Forest hydrologists, this is what a river’s alluvial fan looks like when it’s generated from a glacier’s outwash just upstream. Video: Logan Park 2007 3D Interactive Google Earth Onsite
Exercise: Listen for the unique soundscape / natural quiet of a cobble beach
Since the 1990s, national park systems around the world have begun to incorporate natural quiet and soundscapes as a precious and fragile natural resource. Noise pollution has powerful deleterious effects on human health and well-being, as well as for wildlife! Bass Harbor Head, Mount Desert Island Unit, Acadia National Park, Maine, USNPS 44° 13′ 30″ […]
Crustose and fruticose lichens generate soil from bare bedrock and die with a single step
Site: Bass Harbor Head, Mount Desert Island Unit, Acadia National Park, Maine, 44° 13′ 20.64″ N 68° 20′ 2.04″ W 3D Interactive Google Earth Onsite
Wild edibles, such as fiddlehead ferns, blueberries, blackberries/raspberries, etc. can tempt people to go crashing through woody vegetative undergrowth in search of sweet morsels. A thirty-second diversion into a berry patch can destroy years of growth for sensitive species. Site: Bass Harbor Head, Mount Desert Island Unit, Acadia National Park, Maine USNPS 44° 13′ 19.92″ […]
Visitor-Created Trails In Black Acidic Soils, Acadia National Park
Site: Bass Harbor Head, Mount Desert Island Unit, Acadia National Park, Maine, USNPS, 44° 13′ 19.56″ N 68° 20′ 5.28″ W Interactive Google Earth Onsite Bogs form in places like this when the water has no great outflow point. Video: Logan Park
Example: Visitors Clearing Trees at Bass Harbor Head, Acadia National Park
When visitors take park resources into their own hands, it can become a problem. Site: Bass Harbor Head, Mount Desert Island Unit, Acadia National Park, Maine, USNPS 44° 13′ 19.92″ N 68° 20′ 6.36″ W, Interactive Google Earth Onsite Video: Logan Park 2018
Example: Visitor-Created Trail Soil Subsidence (Erosion + Compaction) at Acadia National Park
This is an example of a “Condition Class 5” (active erosional processes underway) trail segment in saturated subalpine acidic soil over granite (insoluble, low pH buffering) parent material. These roots shouldn’t be visible and degloved (bark stripped off by lugged boot sole trampling) under natural/non-trampled conditions. Site: Forested shoreline east of Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, […]
Example: Encouraging Visitor Use On Naturally-Durable Bedrock at Acadia National Park
Site: Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, Mount Desert Island, Acadia National Park, Maine, USNPS 44° 13′ 18.84″ N, 68° 20′ 11.4″ W Onsite Interactive Google Earth Video: Logan Park 2018
Example: What hardening a resource against rec impact looks like at Acadia National Park
Observe the basalt/granite stone steps sourced from local material. Also observe the custom-built boardwalk (raised wooden) stairs. Both are used all across the national park by Acadia National Park’s management team to physically separate 2+ million annual visitors’ feet from the fragile subalpine, shoreside lenses of thin, acidic spruce & fir needle-based soils. Onsite Interactive […]
Exercise: How Would You Manage Food-Attracted Denali Coyote Approach Behavior?
Here, a coyote bounds down a mountainside to approach us and beg for food. What could possibly go wrong? In the video you’ll hear speculation about this being “habituation” but talking with the backpackers afterward, we learned the coyote had followed them seeking food handouts.
Caribou Causing Congestion
The tundra brush in Denali National Park can grow quite thickly, slowing wildlife travel, costing more precious calories, and concealing hungry predators. Some species adapt by using cleared human transportation infrastructure like the Denali Park Road to move much more quickly. Joe van Horn, Denali’s Chief of Resource Management at the time (2007) is driving […]
Exercise: How would you manage a habituated grizzly bear at a busy Alaskan fieldwork site?
Cave Spring Interp Practice Site, Ozark Riverways
Here you can see the basic approach to the site where we practice live/staffed interpretive guided hikes, a common technique used in professional environmental interpretation by rangers and affiliated naturalists.
Guided Hike Staffed Interp Example Practice Run, Kendall
Example Guided Hike Staffed Interp Practice, Brandon Ferencz
Example Guided Hike Staffed Interp, Parker Wilkinson
2012 Summer Camp Edit by Joe Starkey
Natural Resource Conflicts Section, Human Dimensions, Day 5:
Important Reminder: Keep an eye on D2L for the link to this afternoon’s debriefing with Dr. Akamani (Zoom) at 4pm Central USA time. For a detailed understanding of Lesson 5: Natural resource conflicts and wicked problems, please read Rittel and Webber (1973), Nie (2003), and Brooks & Champ (2006). All readings are available in the […]
Natural Resource Planning Section Human Dimensions Day 3: Natural Resources Planning and the Cache River Valley
Complete: Lesson 3 Reading Assignment (from yesterday evening in the course calendar): Behnken et al 2016 Constraints to collaborative ecosystem management (D2L .pdf file) Cortner and Moote 1999 chapter 2 (D2L .pdf file) Cortner and Moote 1999 chapter 3 (D2L .pdf file) Comprehend: Lesson 3 Evolving approaches to natural resource management (D2L PowerPoint .pptx file) […]
Wildlife Displacement Behavior: Great Blue Heron
Interactive Google Earth Onsite This is what it looks like when a wildlife species decides to leave an area upon human arrival. Repeated throughout the day, these little encounters effectively degrade the habitat for the disturbed species. Each species has its own “flight radius” within which it will try to flee from human approach.
Clearcutting Chokes Current
Historic clearcutting practices by some of the early western settlers and farmers to the area caused massive, massive soil erosion into rivers like the Current and Jacks Fork of Ozark National Scenic Riverways. These river channels were once described as deep, fast-flowing, and routinely scoured by flooding. Now, they are choked with gravel, cobble and […]
Exercise: How to Manage This Cave Spring Gravity Feature?
3D Interactable Google Earth Onsite
Cave Spring Aperture
Cave spring is what a wet seep looks like when it grows to the size of a small river. This karst (calcareous / limestone-type wet cave could serve as solid habitat for a variety of aquatic & cave species, but its easy access and high desirability among human visitors puts a lot of pressure on […]
Bedrock and soil hardened parkitecture at Devil’s Well
Site: Devil’s Well at Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri Safe and durable facilities have to be built custom and usually onsite in order to provide access to–but protect from visitor impacts–sites like the karst sinkhole / cave / underground lake at Dvil’s Well, Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
Antidunes migrating upstream
Medano Creek is a sinking stream, but of a different kind than we’re used to in the karst (eroded, effectively porous/fractured limestone-type) geology we’re used to in the southern Midwest. Here in southern central Colorado, the sandy, wind-deposited soil forces the stream aboveground here and there and lets it disappear to flow slowly through the […]
Skill: Recognize Wildlife Responses to Human Presence: Alerted Ducks & Beavers
When the wildlife cease what they’re doing to monitor your visitors’ approach, it can add up to lost foraging time or distraction from predation. Near Alley Spring, Upper Current River, Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri.