Description:
Schedule: Flexible with school schedule. 20 hours per week between 7Am and 5PM
Housing: No Housing Available
Dates: 10-01-2022 - 12-31-2022
Agency: Bureau of Land Management
Location: Cedar City
Overview:
The selected technicians will participate as an interdisciplinary team members in the overall fieldwork and monitoring program for the wildlife, riparian, threatened, and endangered species. A person working in this position can expect to apply their education in various settings, learning on-the-ground field applications, BLM inventory and monitoring procedures, and uses of the data. The technician should expect to learn about a broad range of responsibilities, duties, and issues associated with wildlife and threatened and endangered species management programs.
Responsibilities:
- The candidate will conduct wildlife baseline inventories to thoroughly document wildlife and wildlife habitat presence, diversity, relative abundance, and distribution. Information collected will allow for the following:
- Assessment of seasonal migratory birds' use of habitat improvements for long-term effects monitoring (i.e. bird point counts, raptor nest monitoring)
- Determinations of existing wildlife diversity, densities, and habitat utilization
- Assessments of impacts upon wildlife and wildlife habitat as a result of a treatment
- Assessments of the need to further mitigate impacts of treatment for any species or class of wildlife on or near the project area
- Evaluations of the effectiveness of mitigation as it pertains to wildlife
- Comparisons of habitat quality in potentially affected habitats before and after treatment activities
Qualifications:
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience working in an outdoor setting
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite