Conservation Internship with Fairfax County Park Authority

Invasive Conservation Corps (ICC)
Fairfax County Park Authority
Fairfax, Virginia (VA)

Description
The Fairfax County Park Authority is announcing a Conservation Internship opportunity.

We are seeking five (5) highly motivated college students to be part of the stewardship team (more positions may be available) . A "can-do" attitude will help rescue our 24,000+ acres of parkland from a host of different invasive, non-native plants such as English ivy and kudzu. The paid internship will last ten (10) weeks, this summer from May through August. Fairfax County, Virginia, located near Washington, D.C. is located in the mid-Atlantic and contains both Piedmont and Coastal Plain habitats. Parkland ranges in size from several thousand acres to less than 1/2 an acre, which allows an exploration of both the concepts of urban fragmentation and large-scale protected habitats in natural resource management.
Compensation --Competitive wage and housing will be provided.

To Apply
Additional information/qualifying materials are available: contact Meghan Fellows at Meghan.Fellows@fairfaxcounty.gov.

For more information or see us online at the Park Authority's Internships website:

www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/internships.htm

Or to learn more about the Natural Resource Management and Protection Section:
www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/resources/resources-nrp.htm