Community Rivers Program Outreach & Watershed Health Summer Intern (@ Riveredge Nature Center)

Community Rivers Program Outreach & Watershed Health Summer Intern @ Riveredge Nature Center in Newburg, WI - shared by Jobs That Help as a third party

Duration: 12 weeks (Full-time employment starting June 1st, 2023)

Stipend: $4,000 (housing not included)

Housing: May be available to rent near Riveredge property

Riveredge Nature Center was established in 1968 and is located in Newburg, WI, a rural northeastern Wisconsin community. The sanctuary includes 452 acres of Wild Wisconsin including: 47-acres of State Natural Area, over 1.5 miles of frontage along the Milwaukee River, and 10 miles of hiking trails. Our mission is to support conservation through education that awakens curiosity, engages the body, and explores connections to nature for all generations.

In 2017, we launched the Community Rivers Program with our neighbors in the Village of Newburg, the first Healthy River Community in the state. In 2018, we were pleased to have the Villages of Saukville and Grafton join Newburg, and in the summer of 2020, the Villages of Fredonia and Kewaskum joined the Community Rivers family. Over the next 5 years, The Community Rivers Program will continue to work hand-in-hand with new towns, villages, and cities to create more Healthy River Communities within the Basin that feel connected to and care for their stretch of the Milwaukee River.

In each Healthy River Community, we’re taking a three-pronged approach to transforming a community’s relationship with the Milwaukee River. Ultimately, we hope to develop a model that is replicable across the region, creating long term sustainability in the health of the Milwaukee River Watershed. In each participating community, we’ll work to:

This program is rooted in a community-based approach transforming the Upper Milwaukee River Watershed through the engagement of rural municipalities and their citizens. The work conducted through CRP will inspire residents to care about their watershed, educate them about the challenges faced by the watershed, and engage them in changing land management practices to help improve the habitat and quality of water in the watershed. The CRP Outreach and Watershed Health Intern will achieve this through a series of personal engagements, adventure activities, and asset based community-wide efforts. The CRP Outreach and Watershed Health Intern is a critical component in the outward facing work of CPR throughout the summer as well as the internal process of tracking our progress, goals, and relationships established over time. This position will spend approximately 50% of the time allocated conducting research and completing programmatic administrative tasks and 50% of the time allocated in the field/conducting outreach.