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The Great Basin Institute, in cooperation with the USFS, is recruiting 1 Forestry Crew Lead to perform timber sale-preparation, vegetation management and restoration projects within the USFS Region 5 Sequoia National Forest (Western Divide Ranger District) in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. These projects all serve the Basin & Range Forestry program’s greater mission of helping the USFS in their critical goal of improving forest resilience in the face of worsening climate conditions and increased wildfire threats. The work that you will do directly improves the quality of these forests helping ensure they continue to thrive for generations to come.
Selected Leads will serve USFS Region 5’s vegetation management and fuels reduction efforts, supporting initiatives for healthy, productive, and resilient forest landscapes and resources. Projects will vary across the Western Divide Ranger District, and include but are not limited to fuels reduction initiatives in wildland urban interface (WUI) areas, in and around sensitive habitats for threatened and endangered species, and watershed protection. The Crew Lead will receive professional development opportunities and benefit from exposure to USFS processes, procedures, compliance measures and reporting, and technical experience.
The Forestry Crew Lead will perform a wide variety of activities to support all stages of project work. The Lead will be responsible for crew safety and oversight, including coordination of daily tasks and affiliated project and crew needs, provide or assist in training, communicate daily/weekly with agency staff to plan and assess crew accomplishments, and communicate with GBI staff as needed. Crew size estimation of 2 people, total. Forestry duties may include:
– Timber sale unit boundary delineation and layout (GPS navigation, flagging, painting);
– Tree species identification;
– Green and salvage timber marking and cruising;
– Timber and biomass plot cruising;
– Collection of stand examination data;
– General silviculture data collection; and
– Identification of various resource concerns including hydrology, heritage, wildlife and recreation.
Contract Timeline:
– Tentatively: May – November
– Projects are weather dependent, therefore start and end dates vary according to local conditions and individual project needs
Location:
Sequoia National Forest – Western Divide RD
Compensation and Benefits:
Job Qualifications:
Required:
Preferred:
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