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# Pahranagat NWR Maintenance Volunteer (2024 - 2025)

### Facility

Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge

Alamo,NV

### Location

Milepost 32, Hwy 93Alamo, NV89001United States

### Volunteer Position Overview

Dec 1, 2024May 31, 2025

Apr 14, 2024

Aug 31, 2024

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### About This Position

**Volunteers needed for the following 3 or 4 month commitment: December – February 2025, March - May 2025**

Share your love of wildlife and National Wildlife Refuges. Join us as a maintenance volunteer at Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge.

Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge is located in Alamo, Nevada, about a 90-minute drive north of Las Vegas. Established in 1963, the 5,382 acre refuge provides healthy wetland, riparian, meadow, and desert habitats for migratory birds, especially ducks, geese, and swans. To learn more about the refuge go to www.fws.gov/refuge/pahranagat (https://www.fws.gov/refuge/pahranagat) or watch a short film about the refuge https://vimeo.com/87545027 (https://vimeo.com/87545027). 

As a maintenance volunteer you assist refuge staff with critical tasks to maintain the refuge and conserve wildlife habitat. Tasks may include:
                          - General property maintenance to include custodial upkeep of refuge buildings, restrooms, and grounds.
                          - Trail and grounds maintenance: trimming trees and bushes, mowing grass, planting native vegetation
                          - Construction/maintenance of various fences.
                          - Repair/replacement/installation of directional, informational and interpretive signs.
                          - May also be involved in field projects such as sign installation, kiosk staining or small construction or rehabilitation projects.
                          - If qualified, perform preventative maintenance checks on automotive and heavy equipment, parts and wiring inspection and replacement, complete routine maintenance.
                          - Tasks may also involve metal work, cutting and welding.
                          - Special projects, as assigned, including but not limited to stream restoration, re‐vegetation projects, maintain/clean irrigation ditches and building up road base.
                          - May perform a variety of other duties.

RV or motor home utility hook-ups for electric, water, and sewage are available. Propane is also provided. The commitment requires at least 24 hours/week per resident. When applying, please provide contact information for three references. Two references should be professional. If applying as couple, please provide both applicant names. 

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### Stories About Volunteering

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Our PeopleCount On MeIn the heart of the Lowcountry in South Carolina, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has five houses, more than 36,000 acres, an historic rice-growing plantation, two major rivers, and a 7,500-square foot facility, which is open to the public.Apr 20, 2023

Our PeopleCount on MeAfter a long career with the Department of Defense, working on multi-million-dollar security programs and weapons systems for the U.S. Armed Forces and with partner nations, serving all over the Southeast and abroad, Tom Ress took refuge. “I love the outdoors and nature and found myself spending an...Apr 14, 2023

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