The Student Conservation Association is offering
1,200 interns an opportunity to put rhetoric into
action.
The SCA is seeking applications from
people who want expense-paid internships in places as diverse as
Alaska and Puerto Rico. Interns usually work with conservation
projects in national parks and on forests, as well as on private
land, doing everything from tracking bears and counting fish to
restoring damaged habitat. They helped clean up after the
Exxon-Valdez oil spill in Alaska, for example, and have worked to
save endangered parrots in Puerto Rico. Not all internships involve
working with animals, however. Interns also teach visitors about
the Anasazi at Mesa Verde National Park, according to program
director Wally Elton, and sometimes they survey archaeological
sites. Applicants also don’t have to be young or students to
qualify.
Call Mel Tuck at SCA for more
information at 603/543-1700, or e-mail SCA at
internships@sca-inc.org (Web site:
http://www.sca-inc.org).
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Get to work.
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