National Wildlife Refuge Biological Internship

Managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge is the crown jewel of a vast network of state, federal and local conservation lands covering over 1.3 million acres in northern Florida’s Big Bend region. This 80,000 acre wildlife refuge supports a complex array of habitats, ranging from coastal saltwater marshes to xeric upland pine forests.

Some examples of possible projects and tasks for the intern will be, among others:

• Recovery efforts for threatened frosted flatwoods salamanders;
• Assist in the monitoring and banding of endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers;
• Exotic/invasive plant surveys and control activities including application of herbicides with backpack sprayers and/or manual removal;
• Forest stand and habitat inventory using a Trimble GPS and ArcPad software.