Service Placements

for ENVS 4950 Integrative Seminar in Environmental Studies

ETSU, Spring 2017, O'Donnell

last update: January 13, 2017

I. Overview of Service Requirement for This Course

For this course, you will spend 20-30 hours, over the course of the 14-week semester, engaged in a service activity or project related to your area of interest within environmental studies. You will work with me to arrange your placement with an institution or group.

Keep a log of your service hours. Each entry in that log must include a date, time worked, and a description of what you did on that day. A supervisor must sign your log at the end of the semester. Satisfactory completion of service activities in a reliable fashion gives you and "A" for 30% of the final grade.

II. A Partial List of Available Placements--Projects and Activites

The following is only a partial list of possible activities and projects available this semester. We'll discuss these options in class, and you may have some other ideas in mind as well.

Conservation/ Water/ Land Use and Policy

- Appalachian Resource Conservation and Development Council, Jonesborough

- Boone's Creek Watershed Alliance, Johnson City

- Cherokee Forest Voices, Johnson City

- Erwin National Fish Hatchery (US Fish and Wildlife)

- Middle Nolichucky Watershed Alliance, Greeneville

- Shady Valley Nature Conservancy

- Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy

- Tennessee Eastman Hiking and Canoeing Club -- Trail Maintenance http://tehcc.org/trail_maintenance.htm

- Upper Tennessee River Roundtable ("Working to improve the Clinch, Holston, and Powell rivers in Virginia")

Recreation/ Interpretation/ Environmental Education

- Bays Mountain Park; Kingsport

- ETSU Sustainability Department (University Woods Kiosk and Trails)

- Johnson City Parks and Recreation

- Rocky Fork State Park

- Roan Mountain State Park

- Sycamore Shoals State Park, Elizabethton

- Town of Unicoi, Parks and Recreation

Food/ Agriculture Issues

- Jonesborough Farmer's Market; Karen Childress

- Appalachian Sustainable Development

- Rural Resources, Greeneville

- Unicoi Farmers' Community Kitchen

Political Activism / Public Education

- ECO (Environmental Conservation Organization--ETSU)

- GINI (Green Interfaith Network, Inc.), Johnson City

- Save the Nolichucky (Community Group opposing U.S. Nitrogen in Greene County)

- Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards, Southwest Virginia

- United Mountain Defense, Knoxville

- Mountain Justice Spring Break

- Appalachian Voices, Boone NC

- Upper TN River Round Table, Abingdon VA