Internship
The Flying A Ranch employs 6 to 8 college students working on wildlife related degrees each year. We have had interns from Texas State University, Texas Tech University, Tarleton State University, Texas A&M University, Southwest Texas Jr. College, Oklahoma State University, University of Wisconsin, Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Wharton Junior College. These students are instrumental in helping with various projects throughout the ranch, and also serve as a large part of our fall guiding staff from mid August to the first week in January. This internship program is very important to the ranch owner, Charles Williams. He sees it as a great opportunity for students in the wildlife field to gain knowledge and experience in the day-to-day operations of a ranch and hunting program. The ranch takes pride in providing a place for students to gain this experience while the students are attaining their degrees. The ranch has also been a site for graduate student research. Projects include: a migratory bird study, a Rio Grande turkey survival project, and an axis deer/whitetail deer interaction study.
Provided by ranch:
- Monetary compensation
- House provided with electricity paid
- Ranch vehicles and fuel provided for work
- Workers compensation insurance
Summer work projects
- Juniper control with hydraulic shears (skid steer loader)
- Field shredding
- Brush control on fence-lines (chemical application)
- Windmill work
- Cattle work (short duration grazing)
- Helicopter capture of exotics
- Chemical immobilization of exotics
- General ranch maintenance
- Venison harvest for venison distributing company
- Prescribed burn (depending on weather)
- Projects for school credit
Fall
- Spotlight line counts on approximately 12 nights
- Incidental observation data accumulation
- Helicopter capture for exotics
- Cattle working
- Chemical immobilization for exotics
- Prescribed burn (depending on weather)
- Several days at Kerr Wildlife Management Area. (Working whitetail deer)
- Scouting and videotaping whitetails and exotics
- Harvest of does and management bucks on 5600 acres of whitetail property MLDP
- Guiding Hunters (exotics and whitetail)
- Skinning, quartering and preparing animal for taxidermy
- School/Ranch projects
Contact Wildlife Biologist Keith Lake for questions.
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Keith Lake
(830)-688-1274
Past Interns - (S) Summer (F) Fall
| Texas A&M University Ryan Reitz S & F 2002 Jonathan Lehmann S 2004 Will McCain S 2005 Trey Reagan S & F 2006 Ryan Kettler S 2006 Clint Faas S & F 2006, '07 Nick Herzog S 2007 Derek Harris S & F 2008 Wesley Fikes S 2009 Texas A&M University-Kingsville Cody Groff S 2011 University of Wisconsin Brian Dart F 2010, F '11 |
Tarleton State University John Mathney S 2003 Travis Halfmann S 2003 Jared Self S 2004 Jaden Winfrey S & F 2004 Stephanie McKenzie S 2004, '05 Josh Harris F 2005 Kolton Wood S & F 2010 Oklahoma State University Garrett Steinbrook S 2009 Aaron Warburton S & F 2010 Southwest Texas Jr. College John Smith IV S & F 2009, S '10, S '11 |
Texas State University (Southwest Texas State) Jason Gaswint F 2001 Chad Grantham S & F 2001 Jack Caraway S 2001 Brent Trussell F 2002 Jason Natho F 2003 Clay Waneck F 2003 Chancey Lewis F 2003, '04 Jared Kaspar F 2004 Josh Bryan F 2006 Chris Wiley F 2009 |
Wharton Jr. College Clint Faas S 2002, '03 Texas Tech University Chris Crews F 2005 Brendan Shoars S & F 2005 Todd Warlow F 2006, S & F '07 Matt Orr F 2007, S & F '08 Adam Batot F 2008 Steven Pickens S 2008, F '09, S & F '11 |
