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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