AMU & APU Environmental Sciences

08/19/2026

Passion for the outdoors? Join us to gain hands-on experience and connect with a community that supports public lands. A few examples on our website ⬇️

Fish Culture Member – Abernathy Fish Technology Center
📍 Longview, WA
🔎 Support fish hatchery operations and more | October 2026 Start
🔗 https://usaconservation.applicantpool.com/jobs/1311658

Maintenance Support Member – National Elk Refuge
📍 Jackson, WY
🔎 Help keep refuge facilities and grounds safe and welcoming for visitors | Housing Included | October 2026 Start
🔗 https://usaconservation.applicantpool.com/jobs/1321404

Invasive Plant Control & Fuel Reduction Members – CO Front Range FWS Complex
📍 Commerce City, CO
🔎 Remove non-native grasses, thin fuels | October 2026 Start
🔗 https://usaconservation.applicantpool.com/jobs/1321209

Visitor Services Support Member – Huron Wetland Mgmt
📍 Wolsey, SD
🔎 Help to set up new office for visitors, support display installations & more | October 2026 Start (flexible)
🔗 https://usaconservation.applicantpool.com/jobs/1321024

Gardening Member – Jimmy Carter National Historic Park
📍 Plains, GA
🔎 Assist with garden maintenance and design | Start as soon as possible 2026
🔗 https://usaconservation.applicantpool.com/jobs/1314451

Backcountry Assistant Team Leader Crew Member – ACE PWC Crew
📍 Palm Springs, CA
🔎 Gain valuable experience and mentorship while supporting crews | October 2026 Start
🔗 https://usaconservationcrew.applicantpool.com/jobs/1322277

Traditional Trades (TTAP) – Sleeping Bear Dues National Seashore
📍 Empire, MI
🔎 Gain experience helping to maintain the park’s vehicles, equipment, and small engines | Housing Included | October 2026 Start
🔗 https://usaconservation.applicantpool.com/jobs/1319355

08/16/2026

This is the story of how a coalition of housewives, scientists and a single committed lawmaker brought the Indiana Dunes back from the verge of destruction and turned it into a national park is one of the most understated successes of 20th-century conservation—and the battle is far from over today. https://bit.ly/4mJfje2

📸: Michael Runkel via Getty Images

08/01/2026

Sometimes environmental causes need creative funding solutions! Enter “only marms” 😆

On OnlyMarms, people can directly support with subscriptions and gain access to cam footage surveilling marmot dens.

08/01/2026

Follow APU Jake and AMU Valor!

At some point this page became:

• motivation
• mascot nonsense
• snack debates
• Valor trying to maintain order
…and honestly? Glad you are here.

If you and your friends have not followed us yet, this feels like a good time. 👀

200 followers and counting!! Now, please celebrate us.

07/31/2026

What's next on your career horizon? We're a biological science technician to help monitor a shoreline restoration along the Middle Branch of the Baltimore Harbor Watershed. The technician will do a combination field and lab work. Key responsibilities include mapping changes in marsh vegetation, collecting and analyzing soil samples, and monitoring local terrapin populations to see how they're using the restored habitat!

The technician will work for two of our labs: the Spatial Ecology & Conservation Lab and the Coastal Landscape Ecology Lab. The position is open until filled. To learn more and apply, visit https://serc.si.edu/get-involved/job-opportunities/biological-science-technician-monitoring-of-middle-branch-restoration-in-baltimore

📸 by Audrey Langston-Wiebe / SERC

07/26/2026

Today, July 25, in Busan, South Korea, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) committee added several new sites to its prestigious World Heritage List.

One such site is located in southern Georgia: the sprawling Okefenokee Swamp, which became the 27th UNESCO World Heritage Site in the United States.

These extraordinary public lands and waters are federally protected as the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

It’s the nation’s first-ever national wildlife refuge to obtain World Heritage status, a coveted label that indicates cultural and natural sites of “outstanding universal value” to humanity.

This recognition puts Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge on the same level of global significance as other precious natural treasures across the planet, such as the Great Barrier Reef, Okavango Delta, Galapagos Islands, Norwegian fjords, Danube Delta, and the Serengeti, just to name a handful.

The Okefenokee Swamp is the largest and most ecologically intact precipitation-based freshwater wetland in the United States—a vast mosaic of blackwater channels, cypress forests, floating peat islands, and open prairies stretching across southeastern Georgia and into northern Florida.

It's also one of the most biodiverse areas in the entire country.

“The Okefenokee is a place where nature still reigns,” Kim Bednarek, Executive Director of the nonprofit Okefenokee Swamp Park—which has worked with the federal government on the refuge’s World Heritage nomination—said in an acceptance speech.

“Across more than 400,000 acres, water, fire, peat and time continue to shape an intact wetland, reminding us that conservation is about protecting the natural systems that sustain life itself.”

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge joins over a dozen other UNESCO World Heritage Sites located on U.S. public lands and waters, including Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Mammoth Cave, the Great Smoky Mountains, Everglades, Hawaii Volcanoes, Glacier Bay, and Chaco Culture.

Read the full story here: https://ourpubliclandsandwaters.substack.com/p/okefenokee-becomes-first-national

07/23/2026

𝕀𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕎𝕠𝕝𝕧𝕖𝕤: 𝔸𝕟 𝔸𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕁𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕟𝕖𝕪
𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛
Narrated by Jeff Bridges, directed by Susan Kucera
Now streaming



Featuring Native Americans, ranchers, historians, ecologists--and one of our science advisors, rangeland scientist Matt Barnes, working with a ranch in Wyoming to protect livestock from wolf and grizzly bear predation.

Link in comments.

In the Company of Wolves Film