Lands Resource Specialist - GNA

Description

Idaho Department of Lands

The Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) is seeking a full-time Lands Resource Specialist – GNA. This position will be located at the Payette Lakes Office in McCall, .

The Lands Resource Specialist position is used for recruitment and training purposes for the Lands Resource Specialist, Senior. Through various types of on-the-job training, the employee will learn to carry out the duties of a Lands Resource Specialist, Senior. Typically, the Senior level requires 2-5 years of experience as a Lands Resource Specialist or equivalent work experience. Incumbents are expected to apply his/her technical knowledge and training while learning the state laws and department policies and procedures necessary to achieve the expertise and independence of the journeyman level Lands Resource Specialist, Senior.

This position will support the GNA program performing technical, operational and administrative duties in execution of forest and watershed restoration projects occurring primarily on the Payette National Forest and Bureau of Land Management Lands in the South-Central Idaho Region. Successful candidate will work in a team environment to Plan, implement and administer vegetation management and fuels reduction projects including both commercial and non-commercial harvest and thinning projects.

Prepares timber sale projects in the field to include:

• Establishing project boundaries
  
  Developing silvicultural prescriptions
  
  Determining logging systems
  
  Designing /maintaining road systems
• Timber marking and cruising
• Prepares forest improvement projects in the field to include:
• Planting
• Broadcast burning
• Pre-commercial thinning
• Road maintenance
• Land Surveying
• Prepares timber sale and forest improvement project documentation to include:
• Building GIS project maps
• Compiling timber cruise data
• Determining logging and road construction costs
• Timber sale appraisal
• Preparing contract packages and contract terms
• Developing a hazard management plan

Administers timber sale, non-commercial thinning, planting projects, road maintenance & re-construction, sale layout and timber cruising contracts and other service contracts for compliance with management objectives, contract terms, Department policy and applicable laws

May supervise seasonal personnel

May participate in fire suppression and prescribed burn programs

Experience:

• Communicating effectively both verbally and in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience through technical reports, business correspondence, and oral presentations
• Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to produce maps and analyze spatial data

Some Knowledge of:

• State and federal laws, rules and regulations in relation to natural resource management activities
• Methods used to evaluate projects and/or data, analyzing alternatives, and making recommendations
• Public land survey legal descriptions, aerial photos and topographic and property ownership maps
• Financial analysis methods used to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions or proposals to choose the most appropriate one

Other:
Possession of a valid driver's license.

Some knowledge of:

• Forest management principles including
• Dendrology, Systemic Botany, or Plant Identification
• Forest Entomology and Pathology
• Soils, Physical Geology or Soil Ecosystems

• Bachelor’s degree in forestry or related discipline
• Experience working in Arc Pro GIS platform
• Experience writing or administering forest management plans
• Experience setting up, writing, and administering timber sales
• Experience with supervising others
• Experience with Project Management and budgeting including priorities, developing project budgets, allocating resources, monitoring progress and evaluating…