Title: Ancestral Lands – BLM Woodland Technician Individual Placement
Stipend: $550.00/week living stipend and $200.00/week housing stipend
Term: 1 year, 52-week service term. 07/10/2023-07/04/2024
Reports to: Assistant Field Manager BLM Field office
Location: 100 Sun Avenue, NE Albuquerque, NM 87109
Status: Full Time, 1,700-hour AmeriCorps Service Term
Benefits: AmeriCorps Education Award of $6,495.00 after each successful completion of service term. Health benefit eligible, Professional Development Funds and Public Land Corps Hiring Certificate.
MAY 5, 2023
Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps’ Mission
Our vision is to lead our Nations back to ecological and cultural well-being by engaging underrepresented Indigenous youth and young adults in conservation service programs that reconnect participants to the land, their cultural heritage, and their traditions. We work to remove barriers to participation, education, and employment by partnering with local community organizations, agencies, and institutes of higher learning to create paid service and career training opportunities, personal and professional development, and pathways to postsecondary education and employment.
Bureau of Land Management- Rio Puerco Field Office (RPFO) Mission
The renewable resource division in the Rio Puerco Field Office oversees the grazing (range), wildlife, hydrology, and woodland programs. Our mission is to ensure multiple use activities can occur in a sustainable fashion through disclosure and coordination with the public and other public users.
Program Overview:
The woodlands in the northern part of the field office are experiencing large die-off from environmental impacts. RPFO and local stakeholders are working to remove dead standing pinyon pine that pose a fuel hazard in the project area. This project will meet local communities’ need for fuelwood. Concern by the public and specialists is the impacts off-road driving pose to retrieval of fuelwood. The soils in the area are highly erosive and gullies/arroyos form quickly if new roads are created and used repeatedly by public users.
This intern will be responsible for communicating with the ID team specialists on the woodland program and how any changes or current uses are affecting the other programs. The need for the intern is to coordinate with outside partners and local public users on their use, need, and understanding of the woodland (fuelwood) management program. This will include field surveys and inventories to monitor and track the current use levels and areas of use. The intern will also monitor any adverse impacts to the environment and report back to supervisor and the ID Team. In addition to the needs of the woodland program, the intern will work with the other renewable programs to assist in rangeland health assessments, proper functioning condition assessments of riparian areas, and watershed health, arroyo stabilization projects.
Essential functions and responsibilities:
The intern will be responsible for producing two reports regarding the woodland management program:
- Report one: End of season use report making observations of the current state of supply quantities, general concerns, use patterns.
- Report two: Future recommendations for the program and administration to ensure sustainability, compliance, and minimize adverse environmental impacts.
- The intern will participate in other renewable resource programs and assist as needed to ensure objectives are met and projects are safe and successful.