Range Technician

Duties

• Range Technicians work under the supervision and guidance of professional range or natural resource specialists related to monitoring rangeland conditions. Ensures grazing permits and leases are in compliance.
• Inspects grazing allotments, forwards issues to higher graded lead or supervisor. Counts livestock and reports on utilization and grazing impact. Maps out areas of use. Inspects range improvement and makes reports.
• Provide technical support and assistance in range conservation, range management, and range improvement.
• Identify needed range improvements, assists with monitoring agreements and permit projects for conformance to specifications.
• Other duties may include weed management and monument inventory. Completing range or vegetation condition and trend studies, utilization, actual use, climatological and other allotment evaluation studies
• May manage herds of wild horses and burros, process allotment transfers, supervise range use by permits, and investigate unauthorized use.
• Operates and maintains weed treatment equipment and supplies (UTV s, Herbicide sprayers, hand tools, chainsaws, and herbicides.) Requests replacement parts, new equipment, and supplies as needed.
• Coordinates pre-inventory mapping (soils, vegetation, etc.) by preliminary delineation in geographic information systems (GIS).
• Initiates and conducts range inventory surveys according to accepted standards and techniques.
• Safely mixes, maintains, and calibrates herbicides and pesticides for use in rangeland environments.