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.
• Responsible for identification, management, and plant ecology, ensuring consistency in programs designed to manage and protect specific plants species.
• Attend a variety of seminars/meetings and stay abreast of latest publications to keep informed on status of threatened, endangered and sensitive plants, maintain current sensitive plant lists and recommend plants that should be included.
• Conduct training in habitat analysis, plant identification, and documentation in accordance with management plans and objectives.
• Provide professional advice and guidance regarding area responsibility as required.
• Maintain communication and exchange sensitive plant and native re-vegetation program information with other specialists/experts from a broad range of agencies, the scientific community, arboretums, and botanical gardens.
• Coordinate with outside entities including grazing associations, county/state weed managers, current and future easement and permit holders, and others in weed treatment efforts.
• Develop an annual program of work and implement restoration projects.
• Provide expertise and interpret complex botanical situations on interdisciplinary teams involving specialists from other management groups and agencies.
• Coordinate with academic institutions regarding specific research and surveys that are periodically conducted on the unit.
• Review environmental assessments and environmental impact statements and make recommendations to ensure that botanical resources and ecosystem integrity are adequately addressed and considered.
• Provide input into all planning efforts on ecosystem restoration.
• Develop and conduct a monitoring program at selected plant sites.
• Design and 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.
• Perform work, or develop and oversee contracts/participating agreements, related to treatment of noxious weed/invasive species and restoration activities. Prepare schedules, cost estimates and scope of work for field surveys and contracted services.
• Lead interdisciplinary planning teams and oversee non-agency entities in restoration activities, assuring all safety protocols are followed. Develop or assist with developing sensitive plant lists and species management guidelines.
• Prepare botanical reports for various environmental documents and prepare biological evaluations/assessments that conform to legal and agency policy requirements and guidelines.
• Prepare statistical and narrative reports, correspondence and briefings as required. Maintain database records on invasive species locations and treatment activities and prepare reports on restoration activities and pesticide usage.

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