Diablo Trust Internship Program

Diablo Trust interns participate in a collaborative land management process that includes environmentalists, ranchers, land management professionals, community activists, scientists, college professors and students. Agency involvement includes the United States Forest Service, the Arizona Game & Fish Department, the Arizona State Land Department, and others.

Interns learns not only about the Diablo Trust but about the workings of non-profit organizations in general. The work varies from day to day, but may include:

• Attending and taking minutes for all Diablo Trust collaborative meetings, including the Diablo Trust monthly meetings and the various Diablo Trust working group meetings
• Office work, including:
• Assisting with Diablo Trust mailings
• Making copies
• Assisting with bookkeeping
• Answering e-mail & phone
• Filing/Organizational work
• Meeting Minutes
• Post Office
• Helping with specific Diablo Trust working group projects. For example, recent interns worked on:
  • Writing the Diablo Trust brochure
  • Producing the Diablo Trust Educational Video series
  • Watershed restoration projects/research
  • Drought Relief projects
  • Conducting grant research, and participating in writing grants for both the Diablo Trust office and some of its working group projects
  • Wind Energy Project
  • Rural Planning Area
  • RPA Retreat
• Attending outside meetings/presentations relevant to the Diablo Trust, such as:
  • The Forest Service NEPA Workshop – Spring 2001
  • Forage Resource Study Group meetings (an ongoing monthly, or bi-monthly meeting of the US Forest Service, AZ Game & Fish Department, AZ State Land Department, and the Diablo Trust – to collaborate on the forage base for this area)
  • The Sustainable Harvests Lecture Series (September 2001 – March 2002) – produced by the NAU Center for Sustainable Environments
  • Malpai Borderlands meetings (a collaborative land management group in SE Arizona)
  • Various grant workshops
  • Other presentations, such as “Building Local, Strong Communities” – Flagstaff, Fall 2001
  • Rural Planning Area meetings with Coconino County Department of Community Planning – 2004
  • Wind Energy meetings with NAU’s Engineering Department and Southwest Wind Energy - 2004

For more information, or to apply as an intern, please contact Derrick Widmark at 928/523-0588 or email him at info@diablotrust.org

Learning from the land and sharing our knowledge...
So there will always be a West.

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