GIS Steward, Vegetation - Yellowstone National Park

• Job Category Individual Placement, Ameri Corps, NPS
• Employee Type Ameri Corps

• Name James Gasaway
• Email (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).

Position Title: GIS Support Steward – Ameri Corps

Site

Location:

Yellowstone Center for Resources, Mammoth Hot Springs, WY 82190

Application Due: July 3, 2026

Terms of Service:

• Start Date: 10/05/2026
• End Date: 03/19/2026
• Ameri Corps Slot Classification: 675-Hour Slot

Purpose:

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 NPS GIS office is hosting a cohort of GIS stewards.

This position is located at Yellowstone National Park in northwest Wyoming. On March 1, 1872, Yellowstone became the world’s first national park for all to enjoy the area’s unique hydrothermal and geologic features. Within Yellowstone's 2.2 million acres, visitors have unparalleled opportunities to observe wildlife in an intact ecosystem, explore geothermal areas that contain about half the world’s active geysers, and hike intermountain northern Rocky Mountain ranges.

Home to more than 1,500 plant taxa, the vegetation communities of Yellowstone National Park include overlapping combinations of species typical of the Rocky Mountains. Forests made up of lodgepole pine, Engelmann spruce, subalpine fir, whitebark pine, and limber pine cover roughly 80% of the park.

We are seeking a GIS Steward to join our vegetation management team in Mammoth, WY to provide crucial data management and visualization support. The Steward will coordinate with the various vegetation management work group leads (native plant restoration, invasive plant management, and vegetation monitoring) to improve data capture, organization, and presentation. Opportunities may be available to contribute to other GIS projects as they arise.

This position will significantly enhance the incumbent's proficiency in the following key NPS

Competencies:

coordination and communication, critical thinking and problem solving, technology application, information quality assurance, project organization and management, and data and metadata management.

Description of Duties:

Project 1: Improve spatial representation and utility of park-wide invasive plant population and treatment data.

The goal of this project is to revamp how invasive plant data is currently collected and stored in Yellowstone’s Invasive Plants database with the goal of improving future usability of data (e.g. fieldwork project planning and prioritization, sharing with partners and contractors, and end of season reporting). At present, Yellowstone NP’s invasive plant data contains multiple large datasets capturing both invasive plant population data and past removal or treatment efforts, typically displayed jointly in a Web Map.

While the overall framework of layers performs well enough, the current data collection standards and related attribute fields yield poor data visualization, making it difficult to operationalize for planning field work and sharing maps with other work groups. Additionally, it does not allow for easy parsing through queries.

The project will necessate the ability to consider all aspects of invasive plant data from field collection to generation of usable maps for multiple end users. This will likely include, but may not be limited to:

• Time spent in field and office settings, under the guidance of a Vegetation Biologist, to learn current field data collection procedures and gain an understanding of invasive plant distributions on the landscape.
• Modifying existing or developing new layers and attributes to store invasive plant population and treatment data that would allow for improved visualization and querying, largely ensuring the ability to generate specific attribute and spatial queries
• Modifying existing or developing new data collection forms for ESRI Fieldmaps app to…