Summary This position is located in El Malpais National Monument, in the Visitor and Resource Protection. Responsibilities All other rocks in America combined do not hold as much history as the cuesta that dominated the 1,200 acres of New Mexico's El Morro National Monument. Rising 200 feet above the valley floor this massive sandstone bluff with its reliable waterhole hidden at its base welcomed weary travelers and the human history inscribed upon the rock and preserved in the ancient ruins, makes El Morro National Monument a handbook of cultural history of the Southwest. At an elevation of 7,219 feet, temperatures range from 90+ degrees in summer to below zero in winter. http://www.nps.gov/elmo/ El Malpais National Monument consists of 114,748 acres of lava fields, cinder cones, lava tubes, ice caves, sculptured sandstone formations, and ponderosa, pinon and juniper forests. Approximately 85% of the park (97,000 acres) is managed as wilderness. Elevation ranges from 6,600 to 8,372 fe...