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Incumbent will be a member of Mountain Home Wildland Fire Support Module for the U.S. Air Force Wildland Fire Branch based at Mountain Home AFB, ID. The Wildland Support Module is responsible for implementing fuels treatments including prescribed burns and responding to wildfires on Air Force property throughout the area of responsibility.

To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 11:59pm (MT) on 02/03/2020

Job Knowledge (to perform the essential activities of this position, the employees must know or understand the following): 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.

Prescribed Fire Pre and Post Operations:

• Function within a team environment to accomplish overall ecological fire management activities including: planning; fuels inventory and area layout; preparation of tools and equipment; preparation of burn units, such as establishing fuel breaks/line construction.
• implementation of firing techniques using firing devices; patrolling and mop up assignments.
• Maintain ecological function of natural systems for the benefit of fisheries and wildlife habitat. Provide for employee and public safety while implementing assigned work projects.

Equipment Operation and Maintenance :

• Ability to operate various types of equipment such as 4-wheel drive vehicles, all-terrain vehicles (ATV & UTV), chainsaws and hand tools in a safe and efficient manner.
• Ability to provide equipment maintenance and repair to a fire ready condition, including hand tools, chainsaws, water delivery pumps and vehicles.
• Ability to organize and track inventories of fire line equipment for accountability of equipment and costs

Other Duties:

• Participate in forest thinning operations to reduce and maintain stand densities.
• Ability to conduct miscellaneous wildlife area duties as assigned during non-fire periods such as visitor signage replacement, repair construction, assistance with planting of food plots, etc
• Gathers or assists in gathering detailed resource information to provide basic pre- and post-burn monitoring such as fuels inventories and vegetation surveys.

The Sierra Institute for Community and Environment is looking for two motivated individuals to fill the positions of Forest Management and Rural Communities apprentices. The selected applicants will work at the intersection of community and natural resources on collaborative forest and watershed restoration. Work will include both applied research and capacity-building work to promote resilient forest ecosystems and rural communities. Occasional travel to rural communities throughout the state to conduct related work and research will be required.

Job duties:

• Collaborative restoration planning and forest management
• Disadvantaged community and tribal involvement
• Collaborative natural resource management
• Community capacity building and biomass utilization support
• General organizational support

Apprenticeships will last a minimum of six months, but may be extended up to nine months. Positions are open until filled, review of applications will begin on December 13, 2019.

Forestry technician for land exams/forest inventory and various silvicultural projects.

Key Responsibilites:

• Perform land exams and prepare reports
• Fixed and variable plot forest inventory
• Unit layout for silvicultural projects
• Roadside and unit herbicide application
• Perform animal damage control
• Assist with fire suppression
• Assist Foresters with various projects

Dates of Employment: June 2020 through September 2020 (dates can be flexible to accommodate school schedules)

Forestry technician for land exams/forest inventory and various silvicultural projects.

Key Responsibilites:

• Perform land exams and prepare reports
• Fixed and variable plot forest inventory
• Unit layout for silvicultural projects
• Roadside and unit herbicide application
• Perform animal damage control
• Assist with fire suppression
• Assist Foresters with various projects

Dates of Employment: June 2020 through September 2020 (dates can be flexible to accommodate school schedules)

The Forestry & Natural Resources Extension program invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 12-month, tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor position (depending on qualifications).

This is a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor faculty position in the College of Forestry, with an academic home in Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management. This is a statewide position located at the OSU campus in Corvallis, Oregon.

This position is designed to focus on Extension program development and delivery related to wildland fire science and management. In 2018, Oregon wildfire costs hit a record high of $514 million, with over 800,000 acres burned across the state, resulting in ecological, social, and economic damage. The position will focus on educational programming to assist private forest and range owners and managers, wildland-urban interface homeowners, communities, and fire and fuel specialists and the fire suppression workforce. Key topics will include collaborative natural resource management, wildland fire fuel reduction and management, prescribed burning, timber and range management treatments to build fire resistance and resilience, post-burn recovery, firewise programming, and fire workforce development. The position will work directly with Extension Agents and Regional Specialists in the Forestry & Natural Resources and Fire Extension Programs, and will also work cooperatively with external partners such as the Oregon Department of Forestry, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Oregon Small Woodlands Association, the Oregon Tree Farm System, The Nature Conservancy, Sustainable Northwest, Northwest Fire Science Consortium, local fire departments, and the State Fire Marshal.

Posting will close on January 30, 2020, with a full consideration date of Januray 17, 2020.