Uniforms, food stipend, and rustic housing are some of the benefits received. These positions are advertised nationally and are very attractive to non-residents. Volunteers are responsible for their own transportation to Alaska. Contact the volunteer coordinatior for one or both catalogs of jobs. These people either have specific projects they would like to do or are open to staff suggestions and the need of the park.
Some people are there only for a day and others return on a regular basis.
Most of these volunteers work as they can, when they can. Past projects have varied from botanical studies of a park to weeding flower beds at a visitor center. Park Watch Park Watch was started in the fall of 1992 in response to the high rate of vandalism at trailheads and other facilities in Chugach State Park. The public response was overwhelming - over 70 people signed up to participate in the program. Orientations are set up for park watch training.