PTBA Trail Employment Wanted

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PTBA maintains this online list of people seeking paid employment in trail work, as well as a separate list of available job openings. Anyone can ask to be added to the list, and anyone—including government agencies, non-profits and trail contractors who aren’t PTBA members—can hire anyone on the list.

If you're looking for a job, you should first check our Employment Available list. We encourage you to bookmark these pages and check back frequently.

Also, for great information on trail design and to meet many agency staff, check out PTBA’s upcoming Sustainable Trails Conference.

Additions to and deletions from this list
At this time, anyone can ask to post their employment requests here. This service is currently free, but a non-retroactive fee may be added in the future. Your listing can also contain hyperlinks to sources of more info on yourself.
If you are seeking employment, click here to be added or deleted from the list.

Disclaimers and how this works
PTBA takes no responsibility for errors in these listings. Listing here does not constitute an endorsement by PTBA of any person, organization, or entity. Listings and applicants are not screened—PTBA simply passes on information as it is supplied to us with no implication of accuracy. Listings may be out-of-date. This list contains only people who requested to be shown here—no claim is made as for completeness.

Any contact or negotiations between any person or organization on this page and any other person or organization is strictly between those parties, and PTBA has no stake and takes no responsibility whatsoever for anything that may result from the exchange.

Frankly, PTBA provides this service to the trail community in order to bring wider exposure to this website. We hope that you'll explore this website and help spread the word.

Expiration dates on listings
If you find employment, please notify us so that we can remove your listing. Employment Wanted listings are removed after 8 months.

Trail-Related Employment Wanted

NAME AND CONTACT INFO	PERTINENT BACKGROUND OR EXPERIENCE	INTERESTS OR TYPE OF WORK SOUGHT
Shawn Morrison 5125 griffen lane medford oregon, 97501 Phone: 541-521-7202 scishawn1999@yahoo.com Posted: 11/29/11	Background: I am a long time trail builder,, mini-excavator, morrison trailblazer, bobcats, rollers, rockdrills, blasting, cutting and clearing,trail finishing, bridges, retaining walls, dry stacked, mortered, or keystone, trail surfacing, including gravel and asphault, extensive forman experience, very dependable, reliable truck and 5th wheel for travel, references,can do layout, bidding, and run a crew. very good on excavator....and all listed exsperience..	Interests: my interests,,, i like to work,, play golf, spent my whole life in the mountains and recreation areas building a better tommorow
Emily Linders 2419 Country Place Drive Maryland Heights, MO 63043 Phone: (314) 489-3165 emilylinders@yahoo.com Posted: 11/21/11	Background: I'm a seasoned trailworker, who has somehow managed to live the last three years mostly in the mountains, often near hotsprings. I feel truly alive living out in the mountains and lucky to have been out there so much! I spent my last three summers in the backcountry: one as a trail worker, two as a cook for the California Conservation Corps Backcountry Trails Program. My dutch oven lasagna is the best, and I can lay a beautiful rock wall too :) TIMELINE: This summer: Cooked for a 20-person CCC Backcountry Trail crew out in the Klamath National Forest of Northern California with weekly resupply coming in on a string of mules. I climbed Mt. Shasta on 4th of July, too! This past Spring: I spent two months teaching rockwork to the monks at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in the Ventana Wilderness just North of Big Sur, CA. (Rock work is kind of Zen, right?) We built several big retaining walls and layed a lot of stone steps on the Suzuki Roshi Memorial Trail and all around their new retreat center. I also gardened, grew veggies, and tended to the massive compost pile. This past Winter: I rambled across the country. Rode my bike all over Guatemala, learned to weld, improved my Spanish, and built bicimaquinas (bicycle-powered machines) at an organization called Maya Pedal. We made bici-blenders, coffee grinders, bicycle water pumps and degranadoras (removes the grains from corn cobs) Summer 2010: Cooked for the CCC Backcountry Trail Crew in the Klamath National Forest Winter 2010: I lived in an off-the-grid cedar cabin in the Snoqualmie- Mt. Baker National Forest up in the Cascades of Washington State as winter caretaker for Goldmyer Hotsprings. We put wall and steps on their eroded trail up to the hotsprings and replaced their rotting footbridge with a giant culvert. We hauled a lot of rock, chopped a lot of wood. Summer 2009: I ditched my bartending job in the city to join the CCC Backcountry Trails Program. I spent 6 months in wilderness areas of the Klamath National Forest, learned to swing an axe and learned dry stone masonry from one of the best and it changed my life. Here I learned to love the cross cut, read the trail, dig swales, climb mountains, build wall, retainer steps, causeway, fall trees, buck rounds, chop wood, dig tread, bathe in the creek, sleep on the ground in rain, snow and sunshine!	Interests: I want to be in the backcountry this winter! I like to sleep under the stars. Rockwork is my favorite, but any trail work will do. I might be interested in leading a crew, too. I'm open to anything, meeting new kinds of people, seeing new parts of the country, starting a hillbilly band... I'd really like to spend some time in the desert. And I'd really really like to be out of Missouri for the winter! :) I can cook, too.
Jeffrey Link 401 N Lewis Ave Hardin Mt 59034 U.S.A Phone: 406-679-1979 jeffrey.link82@gmail.com Posted: 11/21/11	Background: I am 29 years old and I graduated from the University of Montana in 2007 with an Environmental Studies degree. From there I went on and served two terms of Americorps and worked for one year with the Florida Park Service as a Park Ranger. I have also worked the City of Missoula Parks and Recreation as a seasonal park attendant. After I got laid off from my seasonal Job i spent 9 months in Hawaii volunteering on organic farms and communities. I am a dedicated hard worker who puts pride in my job and is always willing to give a little extra to get the job done. I am wanting to work one more season outdoors and getting an actual trail crew job. I am CPR and First aid certified	Interests: I am willing to go anywhere and love to travel. I am an avid outdoors man in good physical condition who loves to backpack, farm, be amongst mother nature and make a difference in the land by physically being apart of crew work, restoration and conservation jobs. During my times as a crew member they were some of the best days of my life. I got to make a difference in the environment working with a diverse group of people from all over America. I volunteered in Hawaii wanting to get a taste of simple life without pay and it was lovely. I just returned from Thailand receiving a certification to teach English to students of other languages. After living in Thailand and experiencing other cultures and realizing my goals in wanting to become a teacher. I also have a strong love for the outdoors and would like the experience of being on a trail crew at one point in my life I am in an in between point in my life waiting to go back to school for a post baccalaureate and finish out my degree in Elementary Education. Comments: Give me a chance I have done my fair share of traveling and need some work and can start at any date and work up until August when I hope to enroll into school. Thank you for your time and I hope I am someone who interests you in hiring.
Donald Brewer 1106 manzanita way Vancouver WA 98661 USA Phone: 2534410994 l2jace.db@gmail.com Posted: 11/2/11	Background: I am currently going to school recently returned from deployment. I have a desire to work and learn how to clear trails and unimproved roads. It is my goal to be apart of a crew that is motivated in the work that makes the nature around us more accessible.	Interests: I would accept any and all opertunities to work, volunteer or as a a job.
Dana Herrick PO Box 344 Kingfield, ME, 04947, United States Phone: 2076284169 herrickd@inbox.com Posted: 11/2/11	Background: Hire me to do your trail-work in the Western Mountains of Maine. You won't regret it.	Interests: Hire me to do your trail-work in the Western Mountains of Maine. You won't regret it.

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