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Military Service Leads to Bureau of Land Management Career - Duration: 2:50.
Veterans Recruitment and Appointment Act
has been and very useful for the Redding
Field Office over the last couple of years.
We have used to bring on some valuable employees.
Hi, my name is Brett Grimes and
I'm a recreation technician.
I was a infantry man in the United States Army
and I served 12 months in Afghanistan as a rifleman and assault gunner.
Initially, I got out of the military
I used the GI Bill to go to college in natural resources.
From there I got an
internship with the Forest Service and doing
projects in coordination with BLM
and then from there with the VRA, BLM was
able to hire me directly on and the
military we were taught skills like
leadership and how to work as a team
and resiliency. Because of that
BLM saw that and wanted to pick me up.
They were able to use the VRA to do so.
In recreation, especially being a
maintenance worker have an ever-changing
environment, my tasks are constantly
changing. Our recreation areas and cleaning
trail heads which is the face of BLM
which the public sees on a daily basis.
I keep it safe and friendly and make
sure these are clean when people come through and
be able to enjoy the environment out here and it's
awesome sites as well as the we have over
a hundred miles of trail. We are constantly
maintaining that when you have hiking
trails, mountain biking trails, things like that.
Doing maintence on trails can make sure
the water to drain off of them.
Taking fallen trees down, bucking those ups
dispersing it, creating a habitat for animals.
It's nice to have the public come and see what we actually do
and be able to take part in it as well
as a youth with the our partnership
with the Forest Service and the YCC.
The Youth Conservation Corps having them come out
here and really see what we do and what takes part.
Currently I'm working with them with the
AmeriCorps crew right now. The eight
young college graduates that have been
out here trying to learn the different
aspects of the Bureau of Land Management when it
comes to forestry, natural resources,
conservation, we've been out here working
on trails as well as a teaching them skills
mending fences and rangeland. We also
planned out different recreation areas
as well as a off-highway vehicle areas.
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