Jay Sicilia is our Goat Education Coordinator – Trail Ambassadors also needed

In an ongoing effort to keep the goat/human encounters on Scotchman Peak Trail #65 to a minimum, Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness has hired a part-time mountain goat education coordinator for the summer.Jay Sicilia begins work on May 10. His  job will be 20 hours a week for 24 weeks, beginning in early or mid-May.

FSPW is also seeking volunteers to be trail ambassadors as part of the goat education effort. Trail ambassadors will hike Scotchman Peak Trail #65 wearing a USFS volunteer shirt and a Scotchman Peaks hat. They will  interact with and educate visitors concerning goat etiquette, leave-no-trace principles and general information about wilderness.

To download the job description for Coordinator as well as Trail Ambassador, please follow this link.

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About The Author:

Sandy Compton has been program coordinator for Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness since 2009. He is also a storyteller and author of both fiction and non-fiction books, and the publisher at bluecreekpress.com.

In addition to his other duties, he runs the FSPW All Star Trail Team (www.scotchmanpeaks.org/trails), which works on Forest Service trails in the Scotchman Peaks. He is a trail surveyor as well, and a C-Certified Crosscut Bucker/Feller and USFS National Saw Policy OHLEC instructor.

Sandy grew up on a small farm/woodlot at the south end of the proposed wilderness and lives there still. He is also board member of the National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance and a planning team member for the Northern Rockies Wilderness Skills Institute.

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