This is very, very interesting. Look at the flyer closely. Chris Hohnholt School of Forest Resources & Environmental Science Michigan Technological University 906 487-2417 forest.mtu.edu ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Kathy Halvorsen" <kehalvor@xxxxxxx> To: "Christopher Hohnholt" <cahohnho@xxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 7, 2009 10:53:30 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Fwd: LANDS Stewardship Program Hi Chris: Another ad, thanks, Kathy Kathy Halvorsen kehalvor@xxxxxxx Office: 225 Academic Office Bldg Social Sciences Environmental Policy Graduate Program & School of Forest Resources and Environment Michigan Technological University Phone: 906.487.2824 Skype: kehalvor > > > --- On Thu, 1/29/09, James Stuart Barnes < jbarnes@xxxxxxx > wrote: > > > From: James Stuart Barnes < jbarnes@xxxxxxx > > Subject: TG Fellows -- Need Help Recruiting College Students > To: "Christine Smith" < christine.smith@xxxxxxxxxx >, "'Kristin > Kelly'" < kris2cam@xxxxxxxxxxx >, "'Amy Meide'" < > agmeide@xxxxxxxxxxx >, > Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 10:17 AM > > Hi TG friends, > > Hope everyone has settled into the new year and their projects. My > work has > been on hold while I waited for funding...and it recently came > through! > Onward... > > For one aspect of TG project, I'm recruiting upper-level natural > resource > students from across the nation and I figured many of ya'll might > know some > good students? My project combines the corps team concept (e.g > youth team > building trails for the Park Service via SCA and other corps) with > the rigor, > resources, and technical strengths of academia. In other words...an > Americorps > College Conservation Corps. > Pretty relevant considering current national > economic, energy, and educational issues. > > These students spend the summer in New England doing advanced > stewardship > projects for for NPS, USFS, municipalities, land trusts, etc. > Projects range > from rare plant inventories, forest carbon measurement, community > outreach, > green development planning, easement monitoring, etc. And they get > paid! > There's nothing like this experience and the ultimate goal is to be > a model > for other universities. I also hope it can be a pipeline for > diversifying the > conservation movement. If know any students who might be interested, > especially > those from under represented racial, ethnic or cultural groups, > please send them > my way. > > Below is the website and a flyer is attached. > http://www.uvm.edu/~conserve/lands_website/ > > Cheers, > James > > > --James Barnes > Land > Stewardship Program Coordinator > Field Naturalist Master's Program Graduate > Department of Plant Biology > Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources > The University of Vermont > 802-881-6267 > > > > > > > > > > >
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