Overview
SECC individual placements will provide individuals with service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural resources. Individual placements participate with federal agencies, tribal governments, and nonprofits, building institutional capacity, developing community relationships, and supporting ecosystem health.
The individual placement will ensure efficient and effective service assignment completion by assisting the Fisheries Biologist and Hydrologist with field equipment maintenance and condition assessment and reporting any deficient equipment and repair needs. Additional duties may include assisting with fisheries-related stream restoration project tasks and occasional, limited inter-departmental serve with hydrology, archaeology, recreation, fire, wildlife, silviculture, engineering, or administration.
Individual placements will assist the department by maintaining and collecting long-term monitoring site data, including macroinvertebrates, substrate, habitat, large woody debris, canopy, seining, minnow trapping, and electrofishing, all to monitor and ultimately improve aquatic ecosystem health on the forest.
The aforementioned project tasks and implementation will result in several improved stream miles in target watersheds on forest service property, including aquatic habitat improvement and restoration, improved stream connectivity at road-stream crossing barriers, post-disaster event cleanup of waterways, and more.
About Southeast Conservation Corps
Empowering young adults to cultivate compassion, responsibility, and grit through community service, hard work, and environmental stewardship.
Southeast Conservation Corps (SECC), a program of Conservation Legacy, is a non-profit, AmeriCorps-affiliated organization. SECC selects young adults, ages 18-30, to complete conservation work projects on public lands throughout the Southeast. SECC programs encourage environmental stewardship, foster community partnerships, & emphasize experiential learning. SECC serves a diverse population that is representative of the Southeast, including youth, graduates, veterans, and a cross-section of ethnicities and income levels.
