Silviculture Forester, Natural Resource Specialist 2 (NRS2)

Silviculture Forester, Natural Resource Specialist 2 (NRS2)
Recruitment #2024-3-7180
Full-time, Permanent, Represented position
Location: Northeast Region- Deer Park, WA
Salary: $4,174.00 – $5,615.00 Monthly 

Want to join something GREAT and make a difference?
Are you someone who loves the outdoors, and is passionate about becoming a natural resource forester working for Washington State? If you love working in the outdoors, appreciate a remote natural environment, enjoy working with a professional staff, and have good practical forestry skills with a proven ability to work as part of a team, then this is the job for you.

The Northeast Region of the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is looking to add a Silviculture Forester, Natural Resource Specialist 2 (NRS2) to our team. This position performs professional-level forest management under the direction of the Silviculture Unit Forester. This position works independently and has regular interaction with Foresters, Forest Engineers, other Natural Resource Professionals as well as other agency representatives, business partners, and the general public. Responsibilities will include a combination of silviculture duties including contract administration for herbicide applications, tree planting, pre-commercial thinning, fuels reduction projects, and forest surveys. This position is also responsible for timber sale planning, timber sales layout, and timber sale compliance. Occasional fire suppression duties may be available voluntarily.

Responsibilities:

• Contract administration on regeneration harvests, thinning, salvage sales, pre-commercial thinning, plantings, and herbicide treatments.
• Forest survey inventories which include: survival assessments, stocking, verification target, pre-commercial thinning, and forest health timber sale design, including stream type determination, identification of potentially sensitive areas, boundary location and marking, reserve and legacy tree identification and marking, identifying appropriate harvest systems and locating roads to access landing locations.
• Preparing documents, including SEPA, FPA, and other permits, GIS maps, pre-cruise narratives, and contract documents.

Required Qualifications: 

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Forestry or Natural Resources related field;
  OR a combination of education and/or experience equivalent.
• Experience with forest management objectives and Silviculture practices.
• Experience complying with forest practices requirements for wetland and stream delineation for eastern Washington.
• Experience using GPS equipment and ESRI GIS program to map unit boundaries and road layouts. 
• Experience using Microsoft Word and Excel or similar software.
• Experience managing contracts.
• Logging and forest road layout experience.
• Shown ability to work independently or as part of a team on assigned tasks, and adapt to changing needs.