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Responsibilities:

• Participates as a member of interdisciplinary teams working on land management planning, emergency burn rehabilitation, or other Forest projects.
• Prepares and carries out water quality monitoring programs, including preparation of plans, collection and analysis of samples, and interpretation of data.
• Prepares environmental analysis reports for restoration projects being considered for implementation.
• Prepares reports of findings for assigned parts of interpretive studies summarizing the results of hydrologic investigations.
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets watershed data for input to environmental reports.
• Conducts water resource inventories following established procedures to assemble data bases required to support management programs and Forest planning.
• The incumbent makes frequent contacts with other watershed professionals and professionals in other disciplines and occasional contacts with State and Federal agencies, permittees, and cooperators.
• Contacts are made to exchange information with other specialists on interdisciplinary teams, to resolve problems, and to test theories and method concepts against peer groups concepts and procedures.
• Collects and analyzes hydrologic data relating to one or more of the three disciplinary fields (ground-water, surface-water, quality-water), determining apparent reasons for data anomalies, and correlating the factors that affect the information.

This position provides support and assistance to foresters and assistant district forester in day to day activities on the State Forest.

Duties include surveying and marking timber sale boundaries, herbicide spray blocks and planting sites laid out by a forester; assisting foresters in the collection of field data for stand analysis and sale layout; assisting in lead work for a crew of semi-skilled laborers and/or other maintenance workers for the execution of projects planned by foresters to include projects such as deer fence construction and maintenance, tree planting, timber marking, seed collection and wildlife habitat management; assisting with wildfire prevention, pre-suppression, suppression and prescribed burning; and applying pesticides for forest management and maintenance.

Scientists at Western Colorado University need your help in  gaining a better understanding of what researchers, resource managers, and others mean when they refer to vegetation (or ecological) "type conversion". Their focus is western North America. The survey inquires about how extensively, where, and in what vegetation types this phenomenon may be occurring, whether it is a management concern, and how it may be addressed. This should only take 5-8 minutes.

The Prescribed Fire and Fuels Technician - Logistics position will support the Forest Stewards Guild’s Fire Management program and be a member of the Gravitas Peak Wildland Fire Module. The position has both field and office responsibilities.

The Prescribed Fire and Fuels Specialist - Training position will support the Guild’s Fire Management program and be a member of the Gravitas Peak Wildland Fire Module. The position has both field and office responsibilities, including but not limited to project implementation, leadership roles on prescribed fires and wildfires, collaborative burn coordination, and young adult mentorship.

Summary: This position is located within a National Forest. The primary purpose of this position is to perform technical duties in timber stand improvement, reforestation, and tree improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Inspects silvicultural contract work (e.g., genetic tree improvement, planting, thinning, seeding, site preparation) for compliance with contract. Explains steps necessary for compliance to contractor and reports violations to COR. May act as COR on various silvicultural contracts.
• Examines sapling and larger stands to collect and record data on stocking, density, condition, insects, disease, site index, and ground vegetation. Makes recommendations for areas requiring remedial action.
• Examines plantations to assess numbers of tree seedlings present, condition, and growth and survival rates, and evidence of animal, insect or disease damage.
• Selects prospective parent seed trees using established procedures to determine which trees have superior growth characteristics.
• Determines the relative abundance and species of seed cones by observing the developing cone and pollen buds.
• As assigned, performs resource work in other functional areas, including fire suppression as qualified.

Responsibilities:

Selects and marks individual trees for harvest using well defined marking
guidelines, silvicultural prescriptions, and specific instruction.

For 3-p sampling, estimates individual tree volume by established methods.

Traverses harvest units, processes information and produces maps.

Designates sale area and cutting unit boundaries on the ground.

Interprets Aerial Photos and locates ground features.

For timber cruising, serves as tally person and may operate electronic field
data recorders. Assists in the measure of limiting distances, tree diameter,
tree height, estimation of defect and quality, and related fundamental timber
cruising procedures. Timber cruising is done under the direct supervision of a
qualified timber cruiser.

Observes and reports areas of possible archeological significance, and
sightings of sensitive, threatened or endangered wildlife species.

Participates in other aspects of resource management support work such as
recreation, maintenance, silviculture, tree planting, etc.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Positions available: Three candidates including one crew leader will be hired to work approximately 35 weeks beginning March 2019 through October 2019.  The crew leader will be responsible for leading the crew into the field to accomplish daily/multi-day efforts.  The crew leader will work closely with the Program Coordinator to determine best management strategies to accomplish program objectives in the most efficient and effective manner possible.  The crew leader must be able to safely carry out the transportation and logistical challenges commonly encountered while working in remote areas with limited access.

Primary job duties: You will be working on a post-fire habitat restoration project managing noxious weeds in Bighorn Sheep and Salmon habitats. Surveying and treating noxious weeds within the Deschutes river corridor as part of a team, measuring/mixing and applying herbicides, using ArcGIS and other mapping software for treatments and surveys of noxious weed infestations, re-seeding and re-vegetation, whitewater rafting, overnight camping, Facebook, website, and social media updates.

As a member of the Prescribed Fire Team within the Wildlife Program, the employee participates in providing statewide fire management implementation services on wildlife areas including fire dependent fish and wildlife habitat restoration and maintenance using prescribed (Rx) fire. Additionally this position is a member of a Prescribed (Rx) Fire Burn Team to help implement projects for fire-dependent dry forest ecosystems with an initial focus in Eastern Washington but may include any region in Washington State. The employee supports/contributes to 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.

Job Knowledge: Fire ecology; fire effects and by-products and their ecosystem actions; fire weather; fuel types; fuel conditions; fuel assessment; smoke management; NWCG standards; knowledge of tools and techniques used to prepare for and implement Rx burns.

Incumbent will be a member of a Wildland Fire Support Module for the U.S. Air Force Wildland Fire Branch based at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The Wildland Fire Support Module is responsible for executing prescribed fire projects, mechanical fuel treatments, and assisting with wildfire suppression on numerous Air Force installations within the area of responsibility.

To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 11:59pm (MT) on 03/04/2019

The National SAFE officer team is accepting nominations for next year’s SAFE leadership. There are four positions available (President, Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer, and Training and Education Officer). Terms for these positions run from ~March 2019 to ~March 2020. Serving as a national SAFE officer is an exciting opportunity to become more involved with SAFE/AFE and meet some amazing people in the fire community.

Use the link below for a description of officer positions and duties.

Two field assistants are needed from 29 April through early August 2019 (end date somewhat flexible) for a large-scale study assessing how woodpecker demographic rates vary relative to wildfire and forest management activities. This work is being conducted in the lab of Dr. Jim Rivers at Oregon State University (http://people.forestry.oregonstate.edu/jim-rivers/) and will take place in the rugged and scenic Crater Lake area of southern Oregon, an area of exceptional woodpecker diversity. Field work will consist of early mornings, hiking alone in difficult terrain, and working long days under challenging field conditions (cold, rain, intense sun, loose rock, hazard trees), including some weekends. Primary duties will consist of locating and monitoring of woodpecker nests, climbing nest trees, using radio telemetry to measure juvenile survival, surveying vegetation, undertaking regular data entry, and assisting with additional project-related duties as needed.