Wildlife Resources Specialist

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement wildlife management plans for the WMAs. The employee is expected to conduct advanced level development work on these plans with limited supervision.
• Maintain a residence and may be required to live in the residence, headquarters building, storage buildings, shooting range, and earthen dams as well as boundary markings and signs for the WMAs. Maintain and inventory equipment including tractors, brush hugs, UTVs, trucks, and trailers. They must be able to safely and competently operate this equipment as well as chainsaws, firearms, and other tools as needed.
• Communicate effectively – both written and orally – with other agency staff, federal regulators and partners, and public resource users.
• Complete various reports and management plans.
• Conduct public relations regarding the area of assignment.
• Attend agency and professional meetings, in-service training other activities that may require overnight travel.

This is a position under the direction of the District Wildlife Biologist and the Assistant District Wildlife Biologist. This position is responsible for wildlife and habitat management activities on the R.D. Bailey Lake and Horse Creek Lake Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs). In addition, this position will assist with the implementation of wildlife research and management programs across the 8-county district in southeastern West Virginia.

The employee is expected to conduct this work under limited supervision. This work will require that the position:

• Develop and implement wildlife management plans for the WMAs. The employee is expected to conduct advanced level development work on these plans with limited supervision.
• Maintain a residence and may be required to live in the residence, headquarters building, storage buildings, shooting range, and earthen dams as well as boundary markings and signs for the WMAs. Maintain and inventory equipment including tractors, brush hugs, UTVs, trucks, and trailers. They must be able to safely and competently operate this equipment as well as chainsaws, firearms, and other tools as needed.
• Communicate effectively – both written and orally – with other agency staff, federal regulators and partners, and public resource users.
• Complete various reports and management plans.
• Conduct public relations regarding the area of assignment.
• Attend agency and professional meetings, in-service training other activities that may require overnight travel.

• Assist with land management operations including the design, implementation of timber sales and prescribed burning, using herbicides and mechanical treatments to manage vegetative communities, establishing and maintaining wildlife openings including planting and maintaining crops and native species within a limited geographic location.
• Assist with wildlife surveys and research and monitoring projects include, but not limited to, the use of radio telemetry, capture equipment, and immobilizing drugs; vegetative surveys (e.g., mast surveys), wildlife surveys (e.g., distance sampling, hunter check station). Assist with wildlife disease and other biological sampling as needed, including sampling for chronic wasting disease (CWD), epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD), and highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) within a limited geographic location.
• Investigate and address nuisance wildlife complaints within a limited geographic location.
• Assist in elk management activities and monitoring efforts within the elk management area in Wyoming County.

• A…