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 🔗Historic Trades Team Member, Monongahela National Forest

  • Full Time
  • Temporary
  • Elkins, WV
  • 22000 USD / Year
  • Applications have closed
  • November 30, 2026
  • Department: Preserve WV AmeriCorps
  • Job Summary: Learn hands-on skills and help preserve history as a member of the Historic Trades Team with the Monongahela National Forest’s Heritage Program!
  • How to Apply:

    1.) Email your resume and statement of interest to the AmeriCorps program director at info@pawv.org. The statement of interest should directly reference the description of the position the applicant is applying to and speak to how the applicant’s interests, experience, and career goals are a good match for that particular service opportunity. If interested, applicants may use the statement of interest to apply for more than one position.

    2.) Create an account and submit an AmeriCorps application under the “Preserve WV AmeriCorps” listing – https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/publicRequestSearch.do
    *For problems creating and submitting an application, contact the National Service hotline at 1-800-942-2677.

    3.) Participate in interviews with Preserve WV staff and Site Supervisors (may be virtual or in-person).

  • Job benefits: Training, Health Insurance Subsidy, Childcare Subsidy, Public Lands Hiring Authority
  • Physical Demands / Work Environment: Outdoors with steep and rocky terrain through heavy vegetation, camping required, lifting and working with tools
  • Contact Name: Danielle Parker
  • Application Email: dlapresta@pawv.org
  • Application URL: https://www.pawv.org/openslots.html
  • Elkins, WV 26241, USA

Website Preservation Alliance of West Virginia

Preserve WV AmeriCorps program is the statewide national service initiative where AmeriCorps members help main streets thrive, cultivate heritage tourism, and preserve beloved West Virginia history.

The Monongahela National Forest is a unit of the USDA Forest Service and includes approximately 920,000 acres throughout the Allegheny Highlands region of West Virginia – an area world renowned for its rugged landscape and spectacular views. The Heritage Program is tasked with the management of a wealth of cultural resources throughout the forest including transportation resources, homesites, recreation resources from the mid-century and CCC-era, and more.

The is a one-year national service opportunity during which time the AmeriCorps Historic Trades Team Member will serve approximately 35-40 hours per week. The team will primarily serve as a unit conducting hands-on historic preservation repairs and maintenance on cultural resources and will be based at the Forest Service headquarters in Elkins. Regional travel will be required to complete projects. The Forest Service may provide transportation for team activities requiring regional travel. Overnight camping trips to facilitate projects are expected. Team activities will primarily focus on three programmatic areas with the goal of enhancing the stewardship and use of cultural resources, including:

​(1) Hands-on Historic Trades to Address Deferred Maintenance

  • Window restoration
  • Vegetation and biological growth removal
  • Cemetery cleaning and maintenance
  • Minor log and wood treatments
  • Repainting
  • Wood roof replacements
  • Masonry construction and repairs

(2) Identification & Documentation

  • Photograph historic resources
  • Write physical descriptions of properties with measurements and site drawings
  • Evaluation for eligibility for listing on National Register of Historic Places
  • Nominations of historic properties for listing on National Register of Historic Places
  • Cultural Resource Surveys throughout the forest to assist with planning landscape-scale active management projects.

(3) Educational & Interpretation

  • Research and develop digital and physical content for the public