{"id":38409,"date":"2021-03-18T09:33:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=38409"},"modified":"2021-03-18T09:33:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T16:33:50","slug":"job-botanist-us-forest-service-south-lake-tahoe-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/job-botanist-us-forest-service-south-lake-tahoe-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Job: Botanist, US Forest Service (South Lake Tahoe, CA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Job Type Permanent<br \/>\nSalary Details $70,459 to $91,602 per year<br \/>\nDeadline Mar 23, 2021<\/p>\n<div class=\"job-frame-description-content\">\n<p>Responsibilities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide technical expertise regarding threatened, endangered, and sensitive plant species, plant community and vegetation management.<\/li>\n<li>Monitor effects of activities on plant communities and interpret trends where management emphasis changes.<\/li>\n<li>Responsible for identification, management, and plant ecology, ensuring consistency in programs designed to manage and protect specific plants species.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Conduct training in habitat analysis, plant identification, and documentation in accordance with management plans and objectives.<\/li>\n<li>Provide professional advice and guidance regarding area responsibility as required.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Coordinate with outside entities including grazing associations, county\/state weed managers, current and future easement and permit holders, and others in weed treatment efforts.<\/li>\n<li>Develop an annual program of work and implement restoration projects.<\/li>\n<li>Provide expertise and interpret complex botanical situations on interdisciplinary teams involving specialists from other management groups and agencies.<\/li>\n<li>Coordinate with academic institutions regarding specific research and surveys that are periodically conducted on the unit.<\/li>\n<li>Review environmental assessments and environmental impact statements and make recommendations to ensure that botanical resources and ecosystem integrity are adequately addressed and considered.<\/li>\n<li>Provide input into all planning efforts on ecosystem restoration.<\/li>\n<li>Develop and conduct a monitoring program at selected plant sites.<\/li>\n<li>Design and conduct environmental data collection field surveys and maintain inventory of plant occurrence records.<\/li>\n<li>Make on-the-ground investigations related to long-term survival of rare plants and the effects of activities in complex ecological and botanical conditions.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare botanical reports for various environmental documents and prepare biological evaluations\/assessments that conform to legal and agency policy requirements and guidelines.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare statistical and narrative reports, correspondence and briefings as required. 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