BEND, Ore. (AP) — Interested farmers have until Wednesday to apply for a rare job opening: full-time farmer at the John Day Fossil Bends National Monument.
Superintendent Jim Hammette says the job is likely the only full-time farmer position offered by the National Park Service.
The Bulletin says (http://bit.ly/GPojZ3 ) the farmer would be required to wear a Park Service uniform and grow hay on four fields on the 74-acre historic Cant Ranch near Dayville in central Oregon.
The hay keeps down weeks and draws in wildlife. Officials say growing hay also preserves the ranch’s cultural tradition.
