Overview
Landscape Maintenance Member Jobs in Martinez, California, USA at American Conservation Experience – Staff
Summary
American Conservation Experience, a nonprofit Conservation Corps, in partnership with the John Muir National Historic Site (a unit of the National Park Service), is seeking two (2) Landscape Maintenance Members to contribute to ongoing routine landscape maintenance projects alongside NPS Staff and other interns and volunteers.
For more information about ACE, please visit the usaconservation website.
Start Date:
03/03/2025
Estimated End Date: 10/18/2025
* 33 Week Commitment
* Location Details/
Description:
John Muir National Historic Site, Martinez, CA.
The site is the home and fruit ranch once owned and managed by naturalist John Muir and is characterized by three separate park units: a 9 acres fruit orchard and ornamental garden site (House Unit); 350 acres of oak woodland and grassland (Mount Wanda Unit); 1 acre gravesite and orchard (Gravesite Unit). In addition to work at the John Muir NHS Members will also be engaged with the landscape at another park site located 20 miles away in the town of Danville, the Eugene O’Neill NHS, characterized by 15 acres of orchards and ornamental gardens.
For more information about Martinez or the John Muir NHS please visit the NPS website.
Position Overview:
The John Muir NHS maintains approximately 370 acres of landscape, in addition to 15 acres of orchards and cultivated landscape at our other park, Eugene O’Neill NHS. This position is necessary for our park to maintain the orchards, gardens, trees, shrubs and other landscape features to the quality and level expected by the public and the two park units. Currently the park does not have staffing to provide this level of service to the landscape and this position will meet and exceed that need, with supervision and guidance from the park Horticulturist/Arborist.
This position will entail a variety of landscape duties from basic gardening and cultural landscaping tasks (pruning, watering, weeding, mulching). Natural resource work may include removal of invasive weeds like thistle, threatened and endangered species monitoring, or native tree and plant monitoring. Day-to-day work will involve working primarily outside in a variety of weather conditions, though the timeframe of this position should be mostly warm to hot especially in summer.
Work and tasks associated with this position may require the use of various landscaping hand tools such as pruners, loppers, rakes, shovels, hand saws, ladders, leaf blowers, lawnmowers, weed whackers, hedgers, fertilizer spreaders, (but no chainsaws). Power tools such as drills, screw guns, sanders, may also be required. Use of ladders may also be necessary and proper ladder use/training will be provided.
Members may need to set traps or hand pull weeds, any use of baits or chemicals will only be done under close supervision. The park philosophy towards toxic chemicals is to limit or avoid their use whenever possible in favor of mechanical or other means of pest management.
The two ACE Members will work day-to-day in tandem with two other ACE/LSC interns and will also engage as much as possible with other divisions at the park including Maintenance, Natural Resources, Cultural Resources, Interpretation, park volunteers, and Youth Conservation Corp members. To …
Title: Landscape Maintenance Member
Company: American Conservation Experience – Staff
Location: Martinez, California, USA
Category: Outdoor/Nature/Animal Care, Research/Development
