Trout Creek Ranch Summer Internship

Location: Trout Creek Ranch, Fields, Oregon

Classification: 40 hours/week for 11 weeks

Compensation: $17.50/hour and furnished housing/utilities are provided.

Oregon Desert Land Trust is seeking two summer interns to assist with ranch and preserve management at our Trout Creek Ranch property in Fields, Oregon - a small, very rural community in southeast Oregon. Interns will support land health monitoring, conservation/restoration projects, and day-to-day caretaking of the property. Responsibilities include facilities maintenance, fence repair and removal, invasive weed surveys and control, bird surveys in wet meadow habitats, and other duties related to natural resource conservation.

Interns will also help host guests, partners, volunteers and serve as representatives of ODLT to visitors, neighbors and community members. Successful candidates will be eager to learn basic plant and bird identification skills, comfortable conducting remote fieldwork and able to use phone-based monitoring and navigation applications. A strong interest in land conservation and a commitment to working in rural communities are essential.