Supervisory Fish & Wildlife Biologist

Supervisory Fish & Wildlife Biologist Duties

As a Supervisory Fish & Wildlife Biologist your duties will include but are not limited to the following:

• Plans and conducts status surveys for both listed and candidate species, in cooperation with other Federal and state agency personnel, private organization representatives, and contractors; negotiates agreements for status surveys with prospective contractors and personnel of cooperating agencies.
• Reviews rules, regulations, legislation and statutes pertaining to rare, candidate, proposed, threatened, and endangered fish, wildlife, and plant resources. Recommends appropriate procedures for implementing provisions of these mandates and establishes key contacts with other agencies, organizations, and the public.
• Provides guidance to, and directs and evaluates the work of, career ladder and entry-level biologists, and partner organization interns of sister agencies in matters pertinent to areas of special expertise
• Plans, investigates, conducts, and reviews on-site ecological investigations on a wide variety of the most complex and diverse Federal land and water resource development proposals to determine their effects on fish and wildlife resources, with special emphasis on rare, candidate, proposed, federally listed threatened and endangered species habitat, grassland and desert habitat and management, and other habitats of concern in the affected area