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Lookout Tower Volunteer

  • Part Time
  • Manila, UT, USA
  • 0* USD / Year
  • Applications have closed

Forest Service

Job category:
Other
Volunteer
Compensation: RV Site Only
Hookups: Full (FHU)
Wi-Fi: Unknown
Pets OK?: Unknown

Job Description

FROM: https://www.volunteer.gov/s/volunteer-opportunity/a093d000000YgUzAAK/ute-fire-lookout-tower

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ADDRESS: Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area; FR055/Ute Mountain Road; Manilla, Utah 84046

DEPT: Forest Service

DATES: 6/1/2022 – 9/30/2022

DESCRIPTION:

Volunteer(s) will have the whole of summer, from Memorial Day-Labor Day to enjoy the beautiful Unita Mountain Range, the only east-west range in the U. S.

 

Volunteers will stay at the Volunteer Campground, a full service set-up for RV/trailer campers. This site is a quiet, shaded, off the road spot where Flaming Gorge NRA volunteers can relax after a full day of meeting and greeting the many visitors who come from all over the world to experience fishing, boating, site-seeing, and memory making.

 

There is something here for everyone and our volunteers get to be a part of making that happen.

 

 

DUTIES
Educate and inform visitors of the cultural, historical, and ecological aspects of the fire lookout tower.

Be able to use a hand held radio.

1st Aid/CPR skills appreciated, but not required.

 

QUALIFICATIONS
Ability to climb stairs in high elevation situation (8,838′)

Ability to speak clearly and patiently into a handheld radio, should the need arise (although daily checks required)

Ability to interact with a variety of individuals from children to adults

Ability to work Thursday-Sunday from 10:00am – 4:00pm from Memorial Day through Labor Day

 

 

 

SKILLS
Conservation Education
Public Speaking
Teaching
Visitor Information
Working with People

 

WORK ENVIRONMENT
Between 1935-1937, the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed the Ute Mountain Lookout tower. It was the first and is the last standing fire tower with living quarters above ground in Utah. Due to the tower’s role in forest history and the efforts of those who preserved and restored it for operational use, Ute Lookout was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

 

The tower offers a panoramic view of the Ashley National Forest and surrounding area. From it, an observer has a 360 degree view of the virtually uninhabited northeastern slope of the Uinta Mountain Range. It remains in use as an active lookout during the height of the Ashley National Forest’s fire season and is a very popular tourist site, situated near the Sheep Creek Geological Loop, another popular drive.

 

 

 

 

JOB HAZARDS
Slip, trip, and fall hazards
Equipment operation
Ergonomic problems

 

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