Fisheries Monitoring Intern

We are Herrera

Envision yourself at a growing, employee-owned company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best performance while making a difference in the world. We are Herrera, a science, planning, and design consulting firm dedicated to working with clients to develop holistic solutions that provide social and environmental benefit. We protect the environment every day by providing a diverse range of consulting services to cities, counties, state and federal agencies, Tribes, non-profits, and private clients throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and western Canada.

For over 40 years, Herrera has cultivated a collaborative, caring, and values-driven culture that empowers our employee-owners to achieve excellence while ensuring we have fun along the way. By providing our employee-owners with the autonomy to pursue their professional interests and through encouraging them to grow, we benefit from high employee-owner retention that contributes to our longstanding partnerships with clients.

• Treat everyone with respect and dignity, always.
• Insist on integrity, objectivity, and social and environmental ethics in our work.
• Act as stewards of the environment upon which we depend.
• Research and outreach, learn and teach.
• Employee owners, employee leaders.

Envision yourself at a growing, employee-owned company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best performance while making a difference in the world. We are Herrera, a science, planning, and design consulting firm dedicated to working with clients to develop holistic solutions that provide social and environmental benefit. We protect the environment every day by providing a diverse range of consulting services to cities, counties, state and federal agencies, Tribes, non-profits, and private clients throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and western Canada.

For over 40 years, Herrera has cultivated a collaborative, caring, and values-driven culture that empowers our employee-owners to achieve excellence while ensuring we have fun along the way. By providing our employee-owners with the autonomy to pursue their professional interests and through encouraging them to grow, we benefit from high employee-owner retention that contributes to our longstanding partnerships with clients.

• Treat everyone with respect and dignity, always.
• Insist on integrity, objectivity, and social and environmental ethics in our work.
• Act as stewards of the environment upon which we depend.
• Research and outreach, learn and teach.
• Employee owners, employee leaders.

We are seeking a motivated Fisheries Monitoring Intern to join our team in Bellingham for a hands‑on learning experience supporting salmon spawning ground surveys. This recruitment may be used to fill between one and three internship positions. In this internship, you will gain practical field experience conducting field‑based data collection in streams and rivers while contributing to important fisheries monitoring efforts.

This position will support salmon escapement estimates through foot surveys in local watersheds. Work will include identifying and counting live and deceased salmon by species, identifying and GPS‑locating redds, and entering field data into a field tablet. The position may also include using hand tools to trim vegetation, maintaining field equipment, and communicating professionally with landowners, city staff, and members of the public.

This internship will involve primarily outdoor fieldwork, with some office‑based coordination. It offers the opportunity to apply field data collection protocols in real‑world fisheries monitoring while gaining valuable experience alongside experienced environmental professionals. Fieldwork will require the use of company provided person protective equipment (PPE), participation in safety briefings, and adherence to established field safety protocols. We are dedicated to providing our interns with meaningful learning experiences that foster professional growth and skill development.

As an intern, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside…