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The Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Forest Health Division is looking to add to its growing team of natural resource professionals committed to restoring and managing the health of Washington's forests. This position will play a critical role analyzing and monitoring forest health conditions that will inform large forest landscape restoration efforts such as the 20-Year Forest Health Strategic Plan. In this role you will interact with a wide variety of scientists, land managers and stakeholders to help them understand complex scientific concepts and apply them in landscape restoration efforts.

If you are a scientist that has proven experience managing natural resources, analyzing landscape level forest health conditions and risk using remotely sensed datasets, developing forest health treatment plans and prescriptions, communicating complex scientific topics to technical and non-technical audiences, publishing research findings in refereed publications, and a passion and commitment to working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to create healthy, resilient forested landscapes, the DNR wants to hear from you!

Job duties include:

  • Develop cutting-edge tools to analyze forest conditions and accelerate pace and scale of treatments
  • Partner with DNR scientists and other researchers to analyze and monitor forest health conditions
  • Perform landscape evaluations to develop forest health treatment prescriptions for priority watersheds
  • Working with land managers to translate science into practical applications
  • Build and maintain statewide forest health datasets
  • Develop and implement monitoring and research projects  
  • Conduct fieldwork to inform landscape evaluations and monitoring studies.
Contact: Chuck Herseychuck.hersey@dnr.wa.gov