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This position supports WDFW’s mission by coordinating and/or performing professional and skilled fire regime restoration efforts while supervising a professional prescribed burn team of one Natural Resource Specialist 1 and six Natural Resource Technician 2 positions. The prescribed fire crew is to perform specialized assignments in the application of Rx fire to achieve resource management objectives. This position directly supports fire dependent dry forest and rangelands wildlife habitat restoration and maintenance through safe fuels reduction, reconfiguration and implementation of prescribed burns on Department of Fish and Wildlife owned and managed lands.

In collaboration with the Rx Fire Unit Manager, the position independently plans, prioritizes, coordinates and implements prescribed (Rx) burn projects for fire-dependent dry forest ecosystems located on DFW wildlife lands. This position will serve as a Burn team supervisor for South Central Washington Zone and has supervisory responsibility over other professionals and skilled technicians. This position contributes to/supports the mission of WDFW of preserving, protecting and enhancing fish and wildlife and their habitats by restoring fire as a disturbance agent at the appropriate frequency to fire dependent ecosystems/habitats sustaining and perpetuating the plants and animals dependent thereon.