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The Student Conservation Association (SCA) has summer positions in just about all the national parks. These are volunteer positions that work with park service personnel. You receive valuable experience working with rangers and the public in a national park setting. Your compensation is room and board and work experience.
The Student Conservation Association (SCA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization incorporated in New York. It operates three volunteer programs:
Resource Assistant Program for Young Adults
Resource Assistants serve in areas administered by NPS, BLM, and other federal, state, local and private entities. Resource Assistants serve as volunteer seasonal staff, working side by side with other professional staff. They are not paid, but receive funds to cover travel, a subsistence for food and housing, and a uniform allowance.
High School Program
High School Program crews consist of six to ten volunteers and their leaders performing conservation maintenance tasks. Leaders are experienced in all aspects of outdoor living and conservation work. Most groups are co-educational, and have an equal number of young men and women. Some 2,600 high school students and young adults are placed each year.
Conservation Career Development Program
The Conservation Career Development Program fosters conservation career opportunities for minority youth through service, counseling, and educational grants. For information contact Student Conservation Association:
1800 North Kent Street
The Park Service Intern Positions and the SCA Positions are very competitive. Plan to apply at least a year in advance to have a chance to work in one of these positions.
Arlington, VA 22209
Phone: 703-524-2441
Web Site: Student Conservation Association
The YCC is a summer employment program for young men and women ages 15 through 18. Through work projects done in the park, the YCC provides enrollees with a better understanding of their environment and management of our natural resources.
Crews will focus their efforts on projects dealing with rehabilitation of trails and backcountry areas, bridge reconstruction, and a wide variety of resource management, maintenance, and research projects. A wide spectrum of environmental education programs will be offered as part of this year's program, as well as an extensive recreation program.
For further information and/or application, please contact the YCC Program Manager at Yellowstone National Park Headquarters by calling:
307-344-2148 or by writing the park:
YCC Program
PO Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 82190-0168
A YCC Application is available online. This is an Adobe Acrobat File (pdf), and you need to download the Adobe Acrobat Reader (this is free software). The document file size is 5.41 K. Here is a link to the YCC Application.
See this Link for current information.
Last but not least, there are summer jobs with local hotels, restaurants, guide services, river rafting companies and other companies in the local gateway cities of Gardiner, Silver Gate, Cooke City and West Yellowstone, Montana and Cody, Moran and Jackson, Wyoming.
There are hundreds of positions each spring and summer in the park working with the park food, lodging, service stations, stores and wrangling concessionaires. These positions are normally filled with college students and seniors. This is a great opportunity to work in Yellowstone and to and spend your time off touring the park.
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