[RWG] JOB OPPTY: USDA-FS Botanist (Tongass National Forest, AK) (DD: 7/8/22)

[Carr, Amanda (Mandie)]

Position: Botanist
Deadline: July 8, 2022
Agency: USDA Forest Service
Location: Tongass National Forest, Petersburg Ranger District in Petersburg or Wrangell, AK
Overview: GS 7-9, Full-time, Permanent
Compensation: $50,216 - $61,424 per year
Who Can Apply:

  *   The public

Responsibilities:
Duties listed at the full performance level, GS-09.

  *   Serves as a botanist with staff responsibilities for developing, evaluating, and monitoring threatened, endangered, sensitive, rare and invasive plant programs.
  *   Participates on interdisciplinary teams to provide the documentation and coordination necessary for the effective management of threatened, endangered, sensitive, rare and invasive plant species.
  *   Implements procedures for recording plant survey information in order to meet environmental assessment requirements, botanical baseline data requirements, and for maintaining plants.
  *   Assists others in plant identification, as well as conducts training to help assigned field personnel recognize, identify, and locate plant species.
  *   Conducts and oversees vegetation inventories, population, and community monitoring in compliance with selected protocols to contribute to the project's baseline data for botanical resources.
  *   Coordinate surveys for special status plants and invasive plants.
  *   Maintains plant surveys and monitoring records in appropriate data base files, in addition to collection and preparation of voucher specimens for plants.
  *   Responsible for providing data for the purpose of analysis and interpretation of population trend and community composition monitoring data and the preparation of summary reports.
  *   Assists unit personnel or contract personnel in conducting botanical research and studies.
  *   Assists in the development and implementation of management plans for the protection and enhancement of habitat for special status plants, and the control of noxious weeds or other invasive species.
  *   Performs assignments which may include collaborating with other resources specialists in the preparation of pesticide use and NEPA compliance documents for a variety of vegetation management and restoration actions.
  *   Assists in project planning and identifying suitable plants for restoration projects.
  *   Accomplishment of these duties will require arduous field work in inclement weather conditions throughout the year.

For more information and to apply: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/662409600
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