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Employer: Forest Stewards Guild
Location: St. Paul, Virginia
Application deadline: Rolling
Position duration for crew leaders is one year: May 19, 2025- May 30, 2026
- Crew leader: Full position description and application instructions
- Crew leader application deadline: Rolling
- Crew member: Full position description and application instructions
- Crew member application deadline: Rolling (with first applications considered March 24, 2025)
- Ensure the safety of crews at all times, when working and traveling
- Lead 3 crew members in natural resource management projects such as oak restoration, invasive species management, and prescribed fire preparation, etc.
- Build positive team and work culture
- Track crew accomplishments and other reporting duties
- Correspond between Guild and Work Partner staff to ensure crew tasks are completed
- Drive 4WD vehicles on rough roads
- Work in steep and uneven terrain during rough weather conditions
- Work with a crew of 4 people on natural resource management projects such as oak restoration, invasive species management, and ecological monitoring
- Work outside in steep and uneven terrain and, sometimes, during inclement weather conditions
- Work safely as part of team
- Problem solve and work collaboratively with fellow crew members to ensure tasks are completed
Job Features
| Job Category | Forest Stewards Guild, Internship, Fellowship or Assistantship, Temporary |
Forest Stewards Guild, Southeast
Posted 5 days ago
Employer: Forest Stewards Guild
Location: Prince, West Virginia
Position duration for crew leaders: May 19 - August 15, 2025 (3 months)
- Crew leader: Full position description and application instructions
- Crew leader application deadline: Rolling (until filled)
- Crew member: Full position description and application instructions
- Crew member application deadline: Rolling (with first applications considered March 24, 2025)
- Ensure the safety of crews at all times, when working and traveling
- Lead 3 crew members in natural resource management projects such as oak restoration, ecological monitoring, and invasive species management
- Build positive team and work culture
- Track crew accomplishments and other reporting duties
- Correspond between Guild and Work Partner staff to ensure crew tasks are completed
- Drive 4WD vehicles on rough roads
- Work in steep and uneven terrain during rough weather conditions
- Work with a crew of 4 people on natural resource management projects such as oak restoration, and ecological monitoring
- Work outside in steep and uneven terrain and, sometimes, during inclement weather conditions
- Work safely as part of team
- Problem solve and work collaboratively with fellow crewmembers to ensure tasks are completed
- The position runs from June 2, 2025-August 13th, 2025. The end date may be extended depending upon crew member availability and/or project needs.
Job Features
| Job Category | Forest Stewards Guild, seasonal |
Employer: New Mexico Enrgy, Minrls & Ntrl Rsrcs Dept
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Application deadline: March 28, 2025
Full position description and application instructions
Summary:
This position will play a key role in coordinating the New Mexico Reforestation Center (NMRC) and implementing the Reforestation Strategy of the 2020 Forest Action Plan.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing partnerships and securing funding
- Overseeing tree seed collection, nursery coordination, and planting projects
- Working with landowners, land managers, and agencies to develop reforestation initiatives
- Facilitating training programs and engaging with scientific and practitioner networks
- Supporting cross-boundary restoration efforts and wildfire recovery initiatives
Employer: Friends of Pheasant Branch Conservancy
Location: Middleton, Wisconsin
Application deadline: Applications will be accepted through April 30, 2025 or until position is filled.
Full position description and application instructions
Summary:
The Restoration and Management Land Manager is a key position responsible for planning, monitoring, and implementing activities related to the ecological health of Pheasant Branch Conservancy. This includes leading restoration and maintenance projects, contributing to committee meetings, managing volunteers (including coordinating volunteer workdays), and collaborating with staff and community partners across municipal boundaries to ensure the long-term sustainability of the Conservancy.
Job Features
| Job Category | Part time |
Employer: Greater Lovell Land Trust
Location: Lovell, ME
Application deadline: Monday, April 14, 2025, 5:00pm EDT
Full position description and application instructions
Summary:
Greater Lovell Land Trust is seeking applicants for a full time, year round Land Steward/Conservation Forester. This new position will support GLLT’s stewardship program by performing land management and easement stewardship on the land trust’s 9,300 acres of conservation lands, and other program functions as directed. This position is expected to spend approximately 60% of their time on general stewardship and 40% on forest management.
Employer: University of Minnesota (Aukema Lab)
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Application deadline: open until filled
Full position description and application instructions
Project Description:
The mountain pine beetle is not present in Minnesota but remains a threat to mature pine forests of the Great Lakes region. Building on past work, this project seeks to characterize conditions that have led to outbreaks of mountain pine beetle in the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA. This project is a component of a larger grant examining how populations of mountain pine beetle transition from endemic to outbreaking levels.
Job Features
| Job Category | PostDoc |
Employer: New Mexico Prescribed Fire Council
Location: Not listed
Application deadline: Close of business on Monday, March 24, 2025
Full position description and application instructions
Duties:
The Council is seeking the services of an independent contractor who lives in New Mexico to serve as the part-time (roughly ¼ to ½) Council Coordinator to:
- Organize educational events and coordinate training opportunities to increase the number of state certified burn managers with a focus on high priority landscapes and high risk communities.
- Facilitate pre- and post-burn public engagement efforts with burn practitioners in NM that may include the USFS, BLM, State of New Mexico, tribes, NGOs, and landowners.
- Liaise with USFS fire managers to coordinate prescribed fire management with inholding and boundary landowners.
- Facilitate monthly Council meetings and support the Council Board with coordination to maintain a healthy and functioning Council for New Mexico.
Job Features
| Job Category | Contractor, Part time |
Employer: White Oak Initiative
Location: work remotely (must reside in Kentucky, Tennessee, or northern Alabama)
Application deadline: April 1, 2025
Full position description and application instructions
Summary:
The White Oak Initiative, fiscally sponsored by Meridian Institute, is currently seeking a Cumberland Plateau Partnership Coordinator to play a central role in identifying, connecting, convening, and leveraging white oak conservation and management efforts across the Cumberland Plateau (primarily Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama). The White Oak Initiative is a diverse coalition of partners committed to the long-term sustainability of America’s white oak forests as well as the economic, social, and environmental benefits they provide. The Cumberland Plateau Partnership Coordinator is a multifaceted position that encompasses a range of key responsibilities, all geared towards fostering effective collaboration and enhancing white oak conservation across this specific geographical region.
Employer: Downeast Lakes Land Trust
Location: Grand Lake Stream, Maine (plus travel)
Application deadline: Open until filled (still posted as of February 20)
Full position description and application instructions
Summary:
DLLT’s Executive Director leads a dynamic community-based organization with support from a small internal team, an engaged Board of Directors, and community volunteers. The Executive Director provides leadership, experience, and enthusiasm to help DLLT excel as an exemplary land trust. They are responsible for focusing on the Trust’s vision and mission and overseeing all operations. They lead a team that practices the highest standards of science and data-driven management of natural resources, promotion of wildlife habitat, forestry practices, and recreation infrastructure. They are the public face of the organization in the community as well as to statewide and national conservation groups.
The Executive Director is responsible for all day-to-day operations of the organization, including but not limited to:
- Management of office routines, maintenance of files and record-keeping, maintenance of office facilities and equipment, management of the organizational calendar and schedule of meetings.
- Maintenance of Board and Committee minutes.
- All public relations and external communications.
- And more...
Employer: Maine Tree Foundation
Location: Augusta and Arrowsic, ME and hybrid remote
Application deadline: Open until filled
Full position description and application instructions
Summary:
Certified Logging Professionals is a program of the Maine TREE Foundation, an independent, private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate and advocate for the sustainable use of the forest and the ecological, economic, and social health of Maine's forest community. The foundation hosts forest-based programs focusing on education, research, and community.
Applicants should have extensive knowledge of Maine’s logging industry, safety training, and relevant experience in the field. Desired qualities include strong organizational and communication skills and a demonstrated commitment to innovative approaches to program operations and alignment with organizational and programmatic missions.
Job Responsibilities:
- Update curriculum and stay current with regulatory bodies to ensure continuous improvement and relevance to program participants.
- Deliver and coordinate initial and recertification CLP training and develop new modes of program delivery.
- Coordinate and conduct site visits to new and existing CLPs, which requires extensive travel through remote locations in Maine’s working forest.
- Aid in the maintenance of the CLP database.
- Organize quarterly CLP Advisory Committee meetings and associated subcommittee meetings.
- And more...
Employer: The Nature Conservancy
Location: Many locations
Application deadline: Varies
Full position descriptions and application instructions
Summary:
The Nature Conservancy currently has many job openings across several states for Burn Crew Managers and other prescribed fire roles. Check out their careers page and type in "burn crew" to the search bar to filter results.
Employer: National Audubon Society
Location: Huntington, VT
Application deadline: Open until filled (still posted as of February 20, 2025)
Full position description and application instructions
Summary:
The Forest Conservation Senior Associate will implement forest conservation efforts as part of the Healthy Forests Initiative – a critical component to Audubon’s Working Lands conservation strategy. The position will advance the goals of the Healthy Forest Initiative to ensure forests remain healthy and resilient despite increasing threats and climate change for the benefit of birds and people. The Conservation Senior Associate will provide technical expertise and conduct programs that target forest owners and managers, both public and private, to promote sustainable forest management techniques that create and improve habitat required by priority forest bird species (Golden-winged warbler, American Woodcock, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Scarlet Tanager, Canada Warbler, and Wood Thrush). They will lead the implementation of the Bird Friendly Maple program in Vermont and more...