Habitat Restoration Helper (UWW at Rock County) - Summer 2026 - Work Study or Regular Pay
Habitat Restoration Student Helper-Summer 2026 Rock County-Janesville:
This is a part-time student employee position and is located at the UW-Whitewater at Rock County campus. Students hired will be expected to work on the Rock campus in Janesville, Wisconsin. Any current UW-Whitewater student may apply. For questions about this position, please contact us at uwwrockinfo@uww.edu.
This is a nature-based student summer job opportunity with lots of learn as you go. Enthusiasm, open-minded attitude, enjoyment of outdoor work is a good match for this opportunity. Some experience working or exploring formally/informally in natural outdoor settings is helpful.
Job duties/qualifications to include:
- Be enthusiastic about creating important habitat
- Appreciate being in nature, learn what is natural and unnatural
- Move around within any outdoor landscape on property
- Be outside physically active for 1-2-3 hours at a time, on most days
- Wear proper attire to be safe and get dirty while outside
- Use simple tools-shovels, manual saws, pruners, seed spreader
- Perform physical labor with some self direction
- Outdoor invasive plant control, trimming and moving cut shrubbery
- Prepping ground, planting seed, plant plugs, and trees
- Plant and animal identification with iNaturalist or other app
- Pulling photos from DNR wildlife camera, Outdoor photography
- Create experimental/innovative materials related to habitat restoration
- Project combines indoor planning, basic software knowledge, plant/animal data collection/analysis, meeting/learning with knowledgeable people
Looking into the future: Collecting and creating ideas/possibilities and planning the continuity of the habitat area. Collaborations with people/organizations, in all aspects of what is needed. Likely short trips to meet helpful people. Keeping track of information and writing up findings.