Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise regarding threatened, endangered and sensitive plant species, plant community and vegetation management.
• Monitor effects of activities on plant communities and interpret trends where management emphasis changes.
• Stay informed on latest status of threatened, endangered and sensitive plants to maintain current sensitive plant lists and recommend plants that should be included.
• Identify vegetation communities and conduct vegetation inventories using basic botanical methods and techniques.
• Maintain plant surveys to meet environmental assessments.
• Conduct environmental data collection field surveys and maintain inventory of plant occurrence records.
• Make on-the-ground investigations related to long-term survival of rare plants and the effects of activities in complex ecological and botanical conditions.
• Conduct training in habitat analysis, plant identification, and documentation in accordance with management plans and objectives.
• Provide professional advice and guidance on botanical issues to colleagues and management.
• Exchange sensitive plant and native re-vegetation program information with other experts.
• Prepare informational responses to internal directives or agency, public group, and individual inquiries.
• Implement management plans for the protection and enhancement of habitat for special status plants and control of noxious weeds or other invasive species.
• Provide expertise, interpreting complex botanical situations on interdisciplinary teams involving specialists from other management groups.
• Coordinate with academic institutions on research and surveys that are periodically conducted on the unit.
• Review environmental assessments and environmental impact statements and make recommendations to ensure botanical resources and ecosystem integrity are adequately considered.
• Participate on interdisciplinary teams to coordinate the effective management of threatened, endangered and sensitive plant species.
• Manage invasive species and native plant community restoration projects.
• Develop or assist with developing sensitive plant lists and species management guidelines.
• Prepare botanical reports, biological evaluations, and assessments for various environmental documents.
• Prepare schedules, cost estimates, and scope of work for field surveys and contracted services.

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