Start/End Dates: May 11, 2026 - July 31, 2026
Compensation: $640 per week + housing
Application Due: February 1, 2026

Fish and Feathers Internship Program seeks to engage young professionals in natural resource careers.
You must (additional requirements):

• Be a U.S. citizen or legal resident. 
• Be between the ages of 18 - 30 years or up to 35 years if a veteran.
• Be willing to undergo a background check upon hiring.
• Have a valid driver’s license and a good driving record.

*A personal vehicle is recommended for this position.

Position Description: 

Fish and Feathers is a program funded by the National Park Service (NPS) and administered by Environment for the Americas. Our goal is to provide our national park partners with talented interns who are eager to learn and to engage with local communities. The intern will focus on supporting, implementing, and leading community outreach programs that focus on fishing and birding activities. The overall goal is to increase diverse community engagement with NPS partners during the program and in years to come.

Responsibilities:

• Reach out to local communities through outreach and educational activities to increase engagement in fishing and birdwatching
• Create new materials (i.e., social media, educational games/activities, signage, etc.) to provide visitors with information about fish and birds at the NPS site
• Understand regulations regarding fishing and ethical birding and communicate this information to participants
• Establish or build upon fishing and birding programs at the NPS site
• Manage and maintain program equipment
• Host World MIgratory Bird Day Event
• Meet deadlines for Environment for the Americas program requirements. 

Qualifications:

• Ability to hike and conduct field operations as part of a team and/or independently in an outdoor setting.
• Experience giving presentations and ability to learn new skills and transfer the knowledge to participants.
• Interest in learning fishing regulations and bird identification for program development and implementation.
• Ability to learn methods employed in fish and wildlife management.
• Strong interpersonal, oral, listening, and written communication skills.
• An Interest in learning new skills.

Major studies relevant to this position: 

Successful candidates will have a background and/or coursework in the following areas or a strong interest in the outdoors with experience fishing and/or birdwatching.

• Biology
• Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
• Ecology
• Aquaculture
• Communications/Marketing
• Environmental Science
• Recreation
• Interpretation/Education

About this Site: 

In 2023, Keweenaw National Historical Park (KNHP) and the Calumet Keweenaw Sportsmen’s Club (CKSC) developed a partnership and received a Junior Ranger Angler Grant to facilitate youth fishing opportunities and education and bring together the varied communities of Michigan’s famed Copper Country through a program called Casting to Connect Our Copper Country Communities in 2023.  Having successfully completed a combination of fishing day camps within the Calumet Unit of the park and a youth fishing derby to bring together our diverse communities, as well as a connection to the 9,000+ year mining history of the area, KNHP is looking to expand its reach to include underserved communities through other partner sites within the 4 county Copper Country of Michigan.

Keweenaw National Historical Park (KNHP) is a partnership park, intertwining federal, state, and local ownerships. A Fish & Feathers Intern at KNHP, will participate in the expansion of the Casting to Connect Our Copper Country Communities program to include other partner sites, including Heritage Sites. KNHP has 23 Heritage Sites within Keweenaw, Houghton, Ontonagon, and Baraga counties. They will  work closely with park and partner to do select locations for fishing camps around the Keweenaw and do historical research and create programing that connects the history of each location to participants of the fishing clinics. Each location will provide a unique story to add to the understanding of the richness of KNHP.  

Calumet Keweenaw Sportsmen’s Club (CKSC) will provide fishing opportunities/programming and the intern will provide historical and cultural programming. In coordination with the CKSC, job duties will include corresponding with representatives from partner sites to develop a schedule of Junior Ranger Angler activities for 2024, assist in youth registration, research historical and cultural connections to selected sites and assist in the development of programming for the events, participate in implementing the programming, document progress (for example photographs, video), and create social media posts. At the end of the project, the intern will develop a final report (review of the project, participation statistics, ideas for improvement).

Interns in this program will receive 480 hours towards Public Land Corps (PLC) Hiring Authority. See below on information about:

Public Land Corps Non-Competitive Hiring Authority (PLC)
The Public Land Corps Non-Competitive Hiring Authority is a special hiring authority available to qualifying interns. The intern must be between the ages of 18 and 30 years old, inclusive, or a veteran up to age 35 and complete 640 hours of work on an appropriate conservation project to be eligible for this hiring authority. Upon successful completion of the PLC project(s), the intern is eligible for two years to be hired non-competitively into a federal seasonal, term, or permanent position. The applicant must apply to a PLC-eligible position advertised on USAJobs.govand selected off a non-competitive certificate of eligibility. For more information, see DOI Personnel Bulletins 11-02 , 12-13, and 17-03.

EEO Statement

Environment for the Americas provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employmentand prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.