Internships
Bleak Taylor Ranch Field Station Wilderness Internship 

The Ralph M. Bleak Endowment Fund provides funding for this 10-week program designed to give students hands-on experience in a breadth of field techniques for natural resources research and management.  Activities include plant and plant community identification, rangeland vegetation monitoring, noxious weed surveys, woodpecker surveys, large carnivore telemetry and remote camera monitoring, stream ecology and monitoring, wilderness skills and mulepacking, wilderness first aid, and use of GPS and maps.  Students collect research data and write reports, interact with visiting scientists, make presentations, and lead discussions.  The course is taught by research station managers/scientists Jim Akenson and Holly Akenson who are wildlife biologists, with additional lectures and activities by visiting professionals.  Students receive 1-4 Internship credits in WLF/RRT396.  Detailed information and application. 


Undergraduate Research
DeVlieg Taylor Ranch Field Station Undergraduate
Research Scholar Award

The DeVlieg Foundation sponsors this "inquiry based" undergraduate learning program.  Each student develops a scientific research proposal, conducts research in the wilderness, writes a research report on the project and presents results at a professional meeting.  Topics may be selected by students or be part of a larger research project.  Students are assisted by a faculty advisor and field station managers to develop the study plan, collect field data, and report on research.  Students receive 2-4 credits  in WLF/ RRT 396 - Wilderness Research Internship or WLF/RRT/FOR/FISH 497 - Senior Thesis.  
Detailed information and application.


Wilderness Undergraduate Research
Other wilderness research opportunities are available to undergraduate students.  Scholarship and project award possibilities are listed on the CNR Scholarship and Field Experience page.   List of Past Undergraduate Research

 

This is a noncredit course designed for non-traditional students who want to spend a week hiking the wilderness and learning about the plants, animals, and human impacts in the wilderness.

Contact Course Instructor:
Jim Kingery jkingery@uidaho.edu
Course size is limited and there is usually a waiting list.  Contact Jim Kingery to get on the list. For course information contact Enrichment Program
peggyw@uidaho.edu E

Workshops and Visiting Professionals 
The primary purpose of the Visiting Professionals travel grants is to provide a diversity of field oriented experiences for students working with natural resource professionals at Taylor Ranch Field Station.  A second purpose is to introduce professionals, university faculty, agency scientists, or educators to the field station to stimulate interest in development of future research or educational activities from the field station. The Visiting Professionals travel grants are provided through the DeVlieg Foundation. 
Visiting Professionals Application Information.

Prior Year Workshops