Description:
Schedule: Monday through Friday
8:00 AM through 5:00 PM
Dates: 05-04-2020 - 08-31-2020
Agency: Bureau of Land Management
Location: Kanab, Utah
Overview:
This position will increase skills in wildlife management, capturing and handling wildlife, and inventorying and monitoring rangeland and natural resources. It will require natural resource data collection and management while requiring some limited weekend work and camping. The intern will be exposed to a variety of weather conditions (temperatures ranging from 45 to 105) with some positions being remote, where living quarters are difficult to find in rural communities.
Position Responsibilities:
Interns will participate as an interdisciplinary team member in the overall fieldwork and monitoring program for the wildlife, riparian, threatened and endangered species. This position also includes inventory, monitoring and data collection for rangeland and natural resource management. The Biology Technician will conduct wildlife baseline inventories to document wildlife and wildlife habitat presence, diversity, relative abundance and distribution.
Qualifications:
With training, the ability to assess seasonal migratory bird use of habitat improvement for long term effects monitoring while determining existing wildlife diversity, densities, and habitat utilization. Assess impacts upon wildlife and wildlife habitat as a result of an administered treatment. Assess the need to further mitigate impacts of a treatment for any species of class of wildlife on or near the project area while evaluating the effectiveness of migration as it pertains to wildlife. Compare habitat quality in potentially affected habitats before and after treatment activities (i.e., bird point counts, raptor nest monitoring).