[Biology-U-L] Internships in Ecological Restoration

[Biology Undergraduate List]

UCSB Undergraduates:
 
    The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County and local landscape 
contractor The Native Landscape have several paid internship positions 
available Winter quarter.  For the past four years the UCSB Shoreline 
Preservation Fund has awarded grants to the Land Trust that have made 
possible the restoration of close to an acre of land at the Coronado 
Butterfly Preserve in the Ellwood neighborhood of Goleta. Over 5,000 
native plants representing forty species have been planted, and over 
forty UCSB students have participated in the projects.  With funding for 
another year, the contractor and crew will transform about 1/4 acre of 
non-native weeds into thriving, self-sustaining coastal sage scrub, 
grassland and oak woodland plant communities. The internship 
will provide students training in vegetation monitoring, native plant 
propagation, methods of eradication of non-native weeds, installation of 
nursery stock and project maintenance.  Work will take place every 
Monday during Winter quarter and into Spring quarter as needed.  Morning 
and afternoon shifts are available to accommodate 
any class schedule.  Interns will be paid a $250 stipend at the 
completion of thirty hours of work.  Students may instead earn one unit 
of academic credit through the Environmental Studies program or 
EEMB and Geography department internship programs.  Volunteers are 
always welcome.  Site work will begin as soon as the crew is hired and 
hopefully before the next rain, so if you are interested please call 
Jason at 569-5429.  Thanks!
                                   
Jason Nelson
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