Volunteer
Job Description
ADDRESS: Warm Springs Ranger District; 422 Forestry Road; Hot Springs, Virginia 24445
DEPT: Forest Service
DATES: 5/17/2021 – 9/7/2021
DESCRIPTION:
The U.S. Forest Service needs volunteers to serve at Lake Moomaw! Spend your summer camping and giving back to your community. Volunteers are expected to have their own camper and be on-site during weekends from May to September.
Welcome potential volunteers!
We’re excited to post Forest Service volunteer opportunities at Lake Moomaw for the first time! The Forest Service is taking over operations at Lake Moomaw after 15 years of concessionaires and we need your help. Serve a critical role as a maintenance helper, living at the lake in a full hook up camp site. This position is focused on maintenance duties such as: isolating leaks, replacing above ground water lines, pressure washing, painting signs and buildings, vegetation management, trash removal, cleaning restrooms etc. Good candidates would work well with others, knowledgeable of the tasks and independently motivated.
- isolating leaks
- replacing above ground water lines
- pressure washing
- painting signs and buildings
- replacing posts/signs
- vegetation management
- trash removal
- cleaning restrooms
- Hand Power Tools
- Landscaping/Reforestation
- Other Trade Skills
The campground sits on the northern end of Lake Moomaw, a manmade lake covering 2,530 acres along the Jackson River. The lake is held by Gathright Dam, constructed in the 1980’s by the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control. The lake’s average depth is 80 feet and it has 43 miles of wooded shoreline making it the second largest impoundment in western Virginia.
Bolar Mountain is part of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest which span 1.8 million acres across Virginia and parts of West Virginia and Kentucky. The forest protects 40 tree species within mostly Appalachian hardwood and mixed pine-hardwood forests. 60 species of mammals and 200 species of birds.