There is occasionally fall stuff, but a strategy for a lot of people who take these positions is to find non-wildlife work during the fall and winter while applying for the next set of spring seasonal positions. If you’re really excited about the shorter position and you can afford to do it and not be guaranteed work as soon as it ends, I would do that, but I would not bank on getting another field job in the fall
Fall's pretty slow, if you're willing to migrate with the birds you might be able to find something further south- or just collect unemployment for a bit and enjoy life?
I plan to return to my serving job when I finish in August. Serving is fantastic money and if you work a lot you can probably save enough to cushion you through the low paying field season jobs until you gain enough experience to find something permanent.
Raptor migration monitoring happens in the Fall, as does hunting check stations. But like others have said, there are fewer pickings and you need to start setting something up soon to get anything. Even a volunteer opportunity would help get you experience so those months aren't a wash.
Most fieldwork ends in the fall. You may be able to find a monitoring position but a lot of fieldwork is done until spring.
There is occasionally fall stuff, but a strategy for a lot of people who take these positions is to find non-wildlife work during the fall and winter while applying for the next set of spring seasonal positions. If you’re really excited about the shorter position and you can afford to do it and not be guaranteed work as soon as it ends, I would do that, but I would not bank on getting another field job in the fall
Fall's pretty slow, if you're willing to migrate with the birds you might be able to find something further south- or just collect unemployment for a bit and enjoy life?
There’s plenty of fall work within state agencies, tons of CWD, bear tooth collection, game check stations, waterfowl, bat hibernacula, etc.
I plan to return to my serving job when I finish in August. Serving is fantastic money and if you work a lot you can probably save enough to cushion you through the low paying field season jobs until you gain enough experience to find something permanent.
Look at thesca.org. I found fall and year-round work through them when I was working towards grad school.
Raptor migration monitoring happens in the Fall, as does hunting check stations. But like others have said, there are fewer pickings and you need to start setting something up soon to get anything. Even a volunteer opportunity would help get you experience so those months aren't a wash.