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Employment Opportunities

Biologist

  • US Army Corps of Engineers (Omaha District) seeking 2004 summer and spring interns to monitor least tern and piping plover nests on Lake Oahe and the Missouri River north of Bismarck, ND.  May-August.  Pay:  GS-3  $8.32/hr, GS-4 - $9.33, GS-5 10.44.  Contact Mark Czaplewski at (308)385-6282 for more information.

Biological Technician

  • Army Corps of Engineers opening for (1) GS-5.  Bismarck, ND office.  Contact Ralph Gabrysh at (701)255-0015.  Also at Pierre, SD office. Call Jim Suedkamp at (605) 224-5862 (ext 3305) for information.
     


STEP (Student Temporary Employment Program)

  • US Army Corps of Engineers 2 openings at Mobridge, SD office.  Call Julie Price at 605-845-2252.

Biological Science Aid/Technician

  • US Fish and Wildlife Service GS-3/4/5 openings (continuous temp and permenant) for Ft. Snelling, MN region.  Contact OPM, Twin Cities Center, One Federal Drive, Room 596, Ft. Snelling, Mn 55111-4054 to obtain an application. OPM vacancy announcement number is CT5685Deadline- April 1st.



Volunteer Opportunities


Spring Migration 2002

  • Volunteers needed for US Fish and Wildlife guided crane tours and avian cholera clean-up.  Volunteers also are needed by NGPC for the Fort Kearny sandhill crane tours.

Contact a TWS officer for more information.

 



Local Volunteer Contacts
 

  • Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
    3423 2nd Ave.
    Kearney, NE 68847
    308-865-5308
    Contact Daylan Figgs for volunteer information in various wildlife management fields
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
    2610 Ave. Q
    Kearney, NE 68847
    308-236-5015
    Contact Sue Huber for volunteer information on avian cholera clean-up (Jan-Mar) and Sandhill Crane Tour Guide (March-April)
  • The Audubon Society (Rowe Sanctuary)
    RR 2 Box 146
    Gibbon, NE
    308-468-5282
    Contact Paul Tebbel for information
  • Crane Meadows Nature Center
    9775 South Alda Road
    Wood River, NE 68883
    308-382-1820
    Contact Pam Anderson for information