Other
Volunteer
Job Description
FROM: https://www.volunteer.gov/s/volunteer-opportunity/a093d000000fjCvAAI/ninemile-remount-depot-visitor-center-lolo-national-forest
DATES: 5/22/2023 – 9/5/2023
ADDRESS:
Ninemile Ranger Station
20325 Remount Road
Huson, Montana 59846
DESCRIPTION:
The Historic Ninemile Ranger District, Lolo National Forest, is looking for enthusiastic, friendly volunteers who enjoy the outdoors. If you fit this description, here is a great opportunity to volunteer at Historic Ninemile Remount Visitor Center. The volunteer services will encompass duties such as guiding tours and interpreting the Ninemile history with the stories of livestock and fires.
Location: The Ninemile Ranger District, of the Lolo National Forest in Region 1 is looking for volunteers to staff the Ninemile Visitor Center. Located in the beautiful Ninemile Valley, our duty station is approximately 30 minutes west of the cultural hub of Missoula, Montana.
History of the area: We are located at the Ninemile Ranger Station which is the Historic Ninemile Remount Depot. The pace is slow with roughly 500 visitors a month, but history is alive! We are a working ranch, boarding most of the Forest Service Northern Region’s horses and mules during the winter and growing hay in the summer. The stock continues to assist backcountry and wilderness work projects throughout the country. North of the station as two historic Civilian Consvervation Corps (CCC) camps where the remnants are still visible today. Foundations and walkways are present, but buildings, as with most CCC camps are gone with the wind. The CCC camp closest to the Ranger Station, one mile to the north, was the main training center for the early smoke jumper training program from 1941 to 1954.
Other Information: Many traditional activities are still alive at the Remount Depot. We manage the Ninemile Wildlands Training Center, which provides trainings to teach people traditional skills such as Crosscut Maintenance and Sharpening, Complete Axemanship, Defensive Horsemanship and Horse Handling and Training Techniques just to name a few. More information on the Ninemile Wildlands Training Center can be found at http://fs.fed.us/f1/lolo/resources-cultural/index-nwtc.shtml
Duties: From our Volunteers, we need the following general visitor center duties
Office/clerical work such as selling merchandise and keeping tabs on the merchandise on hand, and informing staff when supplies need to be reordered.
Accounting skills for keeping merchandise books in order.
Visitor information: Interpreting the Ninemile history with the stories of livestock and fires.
Tour guiding: We have a small tour loop approximately 200 yards in total length at the station.
Stocking brochures at the Visitor Center and at the trail head at Grand Menard Picnic area.
Other possibilities include some ground maintenance work around the station, depending on the discretion of the Facility Manager
May have the opportunity to feed our retired mules in the corrals with the discretion of the Government Animals Manager.
Accommodations: The Volunteer will need to provide their own transportation and RV/camper trailer.
The Forest Service will provide a campsite location just 1 mile from the duty station in the Historic CCC Camp Menard, now a day use area. The volunteers will have a locked gate at their location, keeping their area more secure. The Forest Service will provide electricity, sewer, and water at the site. Telephone lines are provided at each site, but it is up to the volunteer to provide their own telephone. Cell service is limited, however, past volunteers have has success with cell phone boosters.
For more information: Please see https://www.volunteer.gov/s/volunteer-opportunity/a093d000000fjCvAAI/ninemile-remount-depot-visitor-center-lolo-national-forest
SKILLS
Conservation Education
General Assistance
Landscaping/Reforestation
Public Speaking
Visitor Information
Working with People
BACKGROUND/REFERENCE CHECK REQUIRED
Yes