Trails Member
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Job details
- Application deadline:
- Starting date:
- Ending date:
- Salary:
- $1 to $123,456 per week
- Classification:
- full time
- Education required:
- high school diploma
- Experience required:
- 123 years
- Location:
- Arizona, US
- Posting:
- view information
Description
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The ACE Member will serve their season working on trails either in the high country or front country of the desert southwest. The service requires very strenuous effort in moving heavy materials to and around the job site. The Member must be able to hike steep trails in all weather conditions transporting tools and personal gear and work in difficult terrain. Members routinely move items over 50 pounds.
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The ACE Member will assist with rehabilitating and maintaining the following trail related structures: log cribbing and steps, water bars and culverts, stone retaining walls, and stone steps and other tread structures. Tread improvement, out sloping, berm busting and rock removal will be common. Team members will likely assist in cutting and shaping stone. Tools will include a wide variety of hand and power tools such as various hammers, shovels, stone tools, rock bars, digging tools, and power shop tools such as cut-off saws, grinders, and drill presses. May use powered tracked material haulers. Consistently moves heavy materials to and around the job site. Serves under the supervision of a Trail Work Leader or higher graded trail employee.
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There are a variety of trail maintenance projects in the Cactus Forest of the Rincon Mountain District, brushing, installing timber check steps, and re-naturalizing parts of the trail. Other potential project work is helping with mine closures, bench installation projects and trail maintenance throughout the park. These projects have the same requirements of hiking, hauling heavy things and trail maintenance tasks.
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This individual placement is meant to facilitate professional development and promotes exposure to land management agencies and networking with professionals. This could include gaining experience in different conservation fields and shadowing different work groups.
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