Get Outside A Guide to Volunteer Opportunities and Working Vacations in America's Great Outdoors

Get Outside! Is a unique guide to volunteer opportunities across the United States. National and state parks, the USDA Forest Service, and other curators of public lands and historic sites need temporary staff for a variety of fascinating work in beautiful places. This directory describes thousands of positions in hundreds of locales and provides current contact information for each. It's an invitation to exciting new experiences. Get Outside! and make a working contribution to the great outdoors. Inside you will find information on: Becoming a wilderness patroller in wild high country; working as an interpretive guide at a historic lighthouse; developing an environmental curriculum for grade-schoolers; conducting surveys of wildflowers. American Hiking Society is a recreation-based, conservation organization working to cultivate a nation of hikers dedicated to establishing, protecting, and maintaining foot trails in America. The Society's 10,000 individual members and 150 hiking club members contribute to this national effort. (6 x 9, 136 pages)American Hiking Society Staff is the author of 'Get Outside A Guide to Volunteer Opportunities and Working Vacations in America's Great Outdoors', published 2002 under ISBN 9780762723805 and ISBN 0762723807.