Fire Effects and Fuels Steward

Position Title

Fire Effects and Fuels Steward – Ameri Corps

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Visitor and Resource Protection, Grand Teton National Park, Moose, WY 83012

• Start Date: May 18, 2026
• End Date: September 4, 2026
• Length of Service: 16-Week Position
• Ameri Corps Slot Classification: 450 Hours

Stewards Individual Placements (Stewards), a program of Conservation Legacy, provides individuals with Ameri Corps service and career internship opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural resources. Participants serve with federal agencies, tribal governments, and nonprofits to provide institutional capacity, develop community relationships, and support ecosystem health. Stewards in partnership with the Grand Teton National Park will host a Fire Effects and Fuels Monitor.

The data collected by the steward would be used by land managers to determine whether fuels treatments were successful in meeting objectives and to inform the adaptive management process.

Fire Suppression, Monitoring, and Post‑Fire Activities (60%)

• Serves as a member of the wildland fire program by participating in fire response and monitoring, fuels management, and post‑fire activities to achieve a wide range of program missions and goals. Applies an understanding of firefighter safety, fire behavior, topography, weather, and fuels conditions.

• Implements tactical strategy on attacking, controlling, or mopping up fires, building or patrolling firelines, cleaning up burned areas within firelines, suppressing spot fires, conducting firing operations, felling snags or trees, and cutting brush. Adjusts actions based on changing information and evolving situational awareness and communicates assessments to higher level leadership.

• Identifies and adjusts lookout locations, escape routes, and safety zones.

• Observes, collects, and records fire‑related weather, topography, and fuels data. Monitors and records fire characteristics such as rates of spread, flame length, fire behavior, and fire effects, and plots fire progression on a map. Monitors and records smoke dispersion and air quality information. Selects and/or approves monitoring locations and sets fire monitoring observation cycles/intervals according to established protocols. Collects data, documents observations, and prepares reports on observed and potential fire and fire suppression impacts to resources.

• Ensures vehicles, tools, and equipment are kept in a full state of readiness for emergency fire dispatch.

Fire Effects and Fuels Monitoring and Data Management (40%)

• Performs a variety of standardized prescribed fire, fire effects, and fuels monitoring duties.

• Collects and reports live and dead fuel load and moisture, and vegetation quantity and conditions.

• Collects geospatial data, and records microhabitat and plant association data.

• Collects, organizes, and manages field data using standardized procedures.

• Ensures quality control of data collected and processes steps for completing the service.

• Identifies grasses, herbs, shrubs, and trees to species. Confirms field and voucher specimens are properly collected, identified, prepared, and stored.

• Enters fire effects and fuels field data into a centralized database using customized software.

• Routinely performs error checking, data entry, quality control of fire effects and fuels monitoring data, and other data management activities. Identifies and reports problems in data entry and analysis software.

• Tests and/or implements fire effects and fuels monitoring protocols and data management protocols for both field and office activities.

• Participates in fire education activities such as conducting field trips, attending and presenting for public education and special events, and explaining fire management activities to visitors, youth groups, schools, and other audiences.

• United States citizen, United States national, or a lawful permanent resident alien
• Applicants must be between ages of 18‑30 years old, or up to 35 for veteran, based on Public Land Corps Act of 1993 authorizing this Ameri Corps opportunity.
• Has received a high school diploma or…