Location: North and South San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
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STRAW Apprenticeships with Point Blue offer a hands-on opportunity in both the North Bay and South Bay regions, where participants work on impactful, community-based ecological restoration projects. Through this apprenticeship, you’ll gain valuable experience in field restoration techniques, site maintenance, plant and wildlife monitoring, and safe outdoor practices, all alongside Point Blue’s team of Restoration Technicians, Project Managers, and Education Managers. Apprentices also learn effective outdoor education methods, supporting K-12 students in meaningful, hands-on environmental learning through inquiry-based and culturally relevant teaching.

This apprenticeship is designed to support early-career development, connecting you to a network of environmental professionals and providing opportunities to deepen your knowledge through workshops, conferences, and focused lessons on communication, collaboration, and goal setting. Join us to grow your career in conservation, build restoration skills, and make a lasting impact on local ecosystems and communities.

The Students and Teachers Restoring A Watershed (STRAW) program began in 1992 when fourth-grade teacher Laurette Rogers and her students at Brookside School in Marin County initiated a project to restore local creek habitats to help the freshwater shrimp. This grassroots effort evolved into a comprehensive program that engages K-12 students, teachers, and community members in hands-on habitat restoration across Northern California. The STRAW program became part of Point Blue Conservation Science in 2011. This integration allowed STRAW to expand its reach and impact, engaging more students and community members in habitat restoration projects across Northern California, and allowed Point Blue to better integrate restoration science with hands-on, community-based implementation of habitat restoration.