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Leaf and Grass JOB, VOLUNTEER & INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

The Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship has volunteer opportunities, from in-the-field work building and maintaining trails, to animal husbandry and farming programs, to office projects.

The Blue Ridge Center needs volunteers for a timed, 24-hour biological survey!
The Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship is seeking volunteers to be involved with BioBlitz on June 4 and June 5, 2004. Beginning at 3 PM on June 4, 2004, scientists, naturalists and volunteers will comb Loudoun County's largest piece of private protected property as part of the first-ever Blue Ridge Center BioBlitz.

WHAT: Blue Ridge Center BioBlitz is a 24-hour biological survey of all living things found on our 900 acres. It is a race against the clock to see how many species can be collected, identified and recorded before the clock runs out. It is an excellent tool for exciting children about science. BioBlitz generates energy and enthusiasm among scientists and citizens alike. It's an opportunity for biologists from many disciplines to get together, share their passions with each other and the public, and work toward a common goal: finding as many critters as possible! It's botanists competing against mycologists, entomologists against mammalogists, icthyologists against herpetologists!

WHO: Blue Ridge Center BioBlitz is being organized by The Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship in collaboration with various organizations.

WHERE: 11661 Harpers Ferry Road, Purcellville, VA. We are located about 2 miles from the Potomac River in northwestern Loudoun County, between Short Hill Mountain and the Blue Ridge.

WHEN: Volunteers should be ready to show up on Thursday, June 3 to help set up tables and chairs, test equipment, organize food, help with parking and work on last minute logistics. During the event, volunteers will register scientists, work in the first aid tent, brew LOTS of coffee, organize trash and recycling, be available to answer questions and give directions, and clean up. Volunteers will be fed and free camping is available! Visitors and guests are invited to attend on Saturday, June 5 to interact with scientists and help count critters.

WHY: The goal of Blue Ridge Center BioBlitz is to raise awareness of the astonishing number and variety of living things found on planet earth and how they all play an important role in the healthy functioning of an ecosystem.

If you are interested in helping out with this exciting event, please call Cassie Cohn at 540-668-7640 or email her at [email protected]

Openings at Bears Den
Bears Den Trail Center is in need of immediate part-time assistant managers and has openings for two summer internships that include on-site housing and $400/month.

Bears Den is a hiker hostel and retreat center on the Appalachian Trail. It is located in Bluemont, Virginia and offers accommodations to hikers, hostellers, families, youth groups and other organizations. Applicants must have excellent customer relation skills. Guest registration, house keeping, and store sales are some basic roles. The internships run May 1 through August 31 (start and end dates are flexible).

Get more information, or [email protected], or call 540-554-8708.

Attention youth-group leaders seeking a place for service projects or field trips near Washington DC!

The Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship invites you to explore our 900 acres of conservation land with its diverse terrain of young recovering upland forest, wetlands, bottomland, farmland, ponds, and streams.

As an outdoor classroom for research and environmental education, the Blue Ridge Center provides opportunities for youth research and service projects.

Your group can be a part of creating a special outdoor resource by:

Building bridges at locations which will make the property more accessible.
Creating a small amphitheater for organizations in need of outdoor meeting space.
Working with our summer land steward to develop hiking trails.
Planting trees in former cornfields to promote healthy reforestation.

And BRCES has plenty of open space for field trips and learning opportunities such as:

Map and compass courses.
Wildlife habitat assessment.
Bird walks.
Butterfly counts.

The Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship is located approximately 2 miles south of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and 20 miles from both Leesburg, Virginia, and Frederick, Maryland

We welcome you to imagine how you can utilize the abundant natural resources within our primitive, remote setting.

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