Cacapon Institute, a member of the West Virginia Chesapeake Bay Program, seeks a full-time Education & Outreach Coordinator to support our Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences and the Potomac Watershed Partnership.  The successful candidate will have a desire to work outdoors, enjoy engaging students and adults in watershed education, and an interest in CI’s mission to…

May 20 – August 2, 2019 internship with the WV Division of Forestry to perform maintenance (water, prune, mulch, etc.) and survey and inventory riparian buffers and urban tree plantings in Berkeley, Jefferson, and Morgan counties.  Additional responsibilities includes street tree inventories and occasionally supporting WV Chesapeake Bay Program with other forestry initiatives.

May 20 – August 2, 2019 internship in the City of Martinsburg, WV, assessing Urban Tree Canopy and drafting an Urban Tree Canopy Goal.  Additional responsibilities includes GIS mapping and occasionally supporting WV Chesapeake Bay Program with other forestry initiatives.

May 20 – August 2, 2019 internship in the City of Charles Town, WV, inventorying and mapping street trees.  Additional responsibilities includes GIS mapping and occasionally supporting WV Chesapeake Bay Program with other forestry initiatives.

May 20 – August 2, 2019 internship with Cacapon Institute in Berkeley, Jefferson, and Morgan counties, WV, inventorying, mapping, and assessing best management practices (rain gardens, tree plantings, cisterns, etc.).  Additional responsibilities includes GIS mapping and occasionally supporting WV Chesapeake Bay Program with other forestry initiatives.

May 20 – August 2, 2019 internship in the City of Martinsburg, WV, inventorying and mapping street trees.  Additional responsibilities includes GIS mapping and occasionally supporting WV Chesapeake Bay Program with other forestry initiatives.

Dear Foresters & Friends of the Potomac Watershed Partnership, Yale’s Sustaining Family Forests Initiative is offering the PWP “Tools for Engaging Landowners Effectively,” August 1-2, 2018, at Hood College (room to be determined). We will discuss engaging landowners for riparian buffer plantings.  Yale will offer data and techniques to help us target our outreach activities…

Cacapon Institute has two positions open until filled. Watershed Education Specialist to work in the Potomac Basin of West Virginia, and beyond.  Successful applicant will have requisite education, experience, and an interest in working hands-on with K-12 youth in rural, and small town, communities.  Work will be 50:50 classroom education, and hands-on, outdoor, watershed best…

WV Project CommuniTree planted more than 700 trees and engaged more than 1,000 volunteers in 2012. Report by Cacapon Institute for the WV Bay Tributary Team

On behalf of the City of Martinsburg and WV DOF, Cacapon Institute conducted a random sample inventory of the city maintained trees using i-Tree Streets.