[APWG] JOB: NPS EPMT Liaison (DC area)

[Plant Conservation]

Position Announcement
Exotic Plant Management Team Liaison
National Capital Region
National Park Service
Announcement: USA Jobs PC-05-04-KH-M (merit promotion) and APC-05-05-KH-D
(all sources)

The Exotic Plant Management Team (EPMT) in the National Capital region
works directly with resource managers in parks and with partner agencies
and organizations to control invasive exotic plants on National Park Lands
in order to limit or remove the environmental impacts these invasive
species have on park ecosystems.

The National Capital Region encompasses 88,000 acres, in Virginia,
Maryland, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.  Park resources are
rich in diversity and encompass hundreds of miles of riparian habitat,
wetlands and upland forests that support many unique species and
communities. The resources encompassed by the National Capital Region span
from the 180 mile corridor of the C&O Canal and Harpers Ferry National
Historical Park along the Potomac River; hundreds of acres of freshwater
tidal marshes in George Washington Memorial Parkway and National Capital
Parks East in the lower Potomac, to thousands of acres of hardwood forests
and streams at Catoctin Mountain Park, Prince William Forest Park, and
Rock Creek Park. The region also includes preserved civil war battlefield
landscapes at parks such as Antietam, Monocacy and Manassas battlefields.

The Liaison works directly with park resource mangers to prioritize
problem areas and species and prepares work schedules and calendars to
accomplish work in cooperation with volunteers and other agencies.  The
EMPT is located at the region's office for Natural Resources and Science
at the Center for Urban Ecology which allows it to participate in the
interdisciplinary work of the regions technical staff or inventory and
monitoring, Integrated Pest Management, Water Quality and Air Quality
specialists to increase effectiveness and make the lessons learned broadly
available to park managers, scientists and the general public.

This position hires, trains and supervises a staff of biological
technicians including a supervisor to accomplish work.  The location of
this position in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area enables it to
highlight the challenges and accomplishments of the National Park
Service's national program.

Work is largely outdoors applying herbicides and mechanically treating the
invasive plants. Reports, budgets and working with partners, however,
require significant time in the office as well.  You can learn more about
the National Park Service's Exotic Plant Management Program and this team
at http://www.nature.nps.gov/biology/invasivespecies/index.htm