Rangeland Management Specialist

Job Title

Rangeland Management Specialist

Duties are listed at the GS-11 grade level.

Consults, coordinates, and cooperates with all affected users, interested publics, and private interests including various environmental groups.

Advises landowners and land lessees on principles of rangeland management and the laws, regulations, and policies governing management of range resources.

Prepares long and short-range plans based on rangeland resource needs/health/capability, available work force, equipment and budget, and public demands for rangeland resource uses.

Budgets funds for current fiscal year and plans for out-year funding needs within assigned area of responsibility.

Conducts complete inventories and annual monitoring of rangeland resource and activities to document degree of impacts occurring, plant community changes and trend of ecological status or diversity that results.

Prepares and reviews ecological assessments for inclusion in the environmental documentation record as a basis for rangeland project decisions.

Prepares and reviews Environmental Analysis Reports and reviews applications for rangeland use permits or other rangeland use agreements.

Reviews rangeland conditions with rangeland users/permit tees to identify and resolve rangeland management problems.

Inspects grazing allotments for compliance to livestock grazing strategies and management practices that are part of the grazing permit.

Performs supervisory duties 20% or less of the time.