The Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation, a program of the National Park Service, is currently accepting applications for a paid internship offered in partnership with the Department of Landscape Architecture at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF). The Olmsted Center, based in Boston, promotes the preservation of cultural landscapes through research, planning, stewardship and education in partnership with universities and other organizations.

The internship, based at the SUNY ESF main campus in Syracuse, will assist with development of a cultural landscape report for the Marin Headlands, the dramatic 2,250-acre landscape along the north side of the Golden Gate in San Francisco, California. The Marin Headlands include three former military bases dating back to the nineteenth century. The internship will focus on site inventory and mapping, and may include one trip to San Francisco. The internship may also assist with other Olmsted Center projects underway at SUNY ESF.

The internship will provide experience in written and graphic landscape documentation, and background in historic preservation planning and cultural landscape management in the National Park Service.

The internship will begin in May and end in August (flexible start/end dates). The internship may be offered through the Student Conservation Association (SCA). Specific stipend amount to be determined.