Biological Science Aid/Tech (Plants)

Duties

• Biological Science Aids perform a variety of routine procedural tasks in support of biological programs.
• Biological Science Aids may assist conducting field surveys or proposed actions (timber sales, road construction proposals, land exchanges, etc.) for federally listed plant species, and conduct monitoring of known sites to ascertain site resources.
• Biological Science Aids use GPS devices for navigation and data collection.
• Biological Science Technicians (Plants) (BST) make observations and record data relating to plant studies; document occurrence and distribution of identified species; inventory rare and endangered species habitat.
• BSTs conduct controlling noxious weeds through IPM activities such as manual hand digging/pulling, mowing, or spraying noxious weeds with herbicides, as well as assisting with surveys of sprayed plants.
• BSTs participate in environmental studies documenting factors affecting plant species and habitat; conduct field searches for populations of sensitive, threatened or endangered plant species, weeds (non-native invasive plant species).