[PCA] INTERNSHIPS: Chicago Botanic Garden & BLM's Conservation & Land Mgmt Mentoring Prgm

[Plant Conservation]

Please direct your inquries to Laura (contact info below).

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Chicago Botanic Garden's
Conservation and Land Management Mentoring Program
Offered in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management

Are you interested in conservation biology and natural resource
management?

Would you like to gain hands-on experience through a paid internship?

Chicago Botanic Garden's conservation and land management mentoring
program is seeking to place five outstanding college graduates for
five-month paid internships to assist professional staff at Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) state and field offices. We are recruiting suitable
applicants who have skills in one or more of the following areas:
wildlife, botany, recreation, vegetation mapping, and GIS.

Successful applicants will be assigned to work with a mentor at priority
BLM sites throughout the United States; most offices are in western
states.  The stipend for the internship is $750 bimonthly.

To apply, send a letter of interest, transcripts, resume, and three
letters of recommendation to the address below by August 20, 2004.
Applicants must have a visa authorized for employment in the United States
of America. Interns will be selected by September 1, 2004.  Internships
begin in late September or early October.

Dr. Lara Jefferson
Chicago Botanic Garden
1000 Lake Cook Road
Glencoe, IL  60022
ljefferson at chicagobotanic.org