Biologist (Forestry)

Duties

Some of the major duties you will perform include but are not limited to the following:

• Independently plan, coordinate, oversee, and evaluate complex or large-scale resource management projects and contracts, ensuring effective implementation and achievement of established forestry, ecological, conservation, land management, and/or risk-reduction objectives.
• Represent organizational interests in regional and landscape-scale natural resource, forestry, conservation, land management, watershed, fire, or related initiatives and coordinate with Federal, State, Tribal, local, nongovernmental, and other partners.
• Develop, implement, and update comprehensive natural resource, forestry, conservation, land management, or ecological plans and strategies to promote resource health, ecological function, sustainability, and organizational management objectives.
• Provide technical expertise and coordinate the work of support staff, interdisciplinary teams, contractors, and partners in implementing an integrated natural resource or forestry management program.
• Evaluate resource conditions and complex forestry or natural resource management needs; analyze technical information and develop management strategies and recommendations addressing resource protection, restoration, risk reduction, sustainability, watershed function, habitat values, fire management, or other program priorities.

Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.

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