Interns should wear closed-toed shoes, long pants, and should have a long-sleeved upper layer they can put on when we work in dense vegetation. Training on the safe use of hand tools will be provided. Interns will gain experience with a wide variety of skills needed to manage and maintain a natural reserve that receives significant human use. Internships require punctuality, a strong work ethic, and the ability to work outside in all weather conditions in rough, uneven terrain and in dense thickets. Throughout the course of the Quarter interns will visit diverse habitats in various portions of the Campus Natural Reserve, and will pick up some natural history of various plants and animals along the way. This work involves counting adult beetles along road and trail transects-not rocket science, but part of an important regional effort to conserve this endangered species. We will also begin monitoring federally endangered Ohlone tiger beetle adults in coastal prairie habitats beginning in late January. Stewardship projects include the following: (1) woody plant removal from coastal prairie, (2) coastal prairie monitoring (3) management of invasive plant species, including surveillance, monitoring, identification, mapping, and removal, (4) trail maintenance and erosion control on reserve trails, (5) assisting with trail closures, (6) cleaning out abandoned camps and other forest and meadow trash piles, and (7) installing signs and fences. We have some extra toilet paper and sanitary products, but you should plan ahead and be prepared to spend 6 hours away from campus.Īssist with a wide variety of stewardship tasks on the Campus Natural Reserve and surrounding campus natural lands.
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