Wildlife Biologist Job At Mountain Home

[Tim Smith]

From the AFS newsfeed:

Zone Wildlife Biologist

GS-0486-09/11

Ozark-St. Francis National Forests

Sylamore-St. Francis Ranger District

The Ozark/St. Francis National Forest is advertising to fill one zone

Wildlife Biologist GS-0486-09/11 position. This is a permanent position

located on the Sylamore Ranger District with the district office located in

Mountain View, AR, and will also serve the St. Francis Ranger District

headquartered in Marianna, AR. The duty station will be at Mountain View,

AR. The position is being advertised using an Open Continuous Recruitment

(OCR) and the outreach and advertisement will run concurrently.

The OCR # for current qualified federal employees is:

PERM-OCR-0486-57911-WBIO-G

For non-federal employees, the announcement number is:

PERM-OCR-0486-57911-WBIO-DP

The announcement can be found at: http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/

The Referral list will be requested on July 27, 2011. Be sure to indicate

Mountain View, AR as the location in order to be considered for this

position.

This is a continuation of a previously released outreach and advertisement.

Any candidate who applied to the OCR's in response to the initial outreach

will still be considered for the position.

The Biologist in this zone position is responsible for providing some or

all of the following:

1. Program leadership, including budget formulation and execution, team

work, mentoring, and internal and external partnerships.

2. Wildlife specialist support to internal partners (e.g. timber,

recreation, fire, special uses, lands, fisheries);

3. Planning and implementation of wildlife projects (with an emphasis

on ecosystem management, and landscape scale woodland and glade restoration)

4. Planning and coordination of wildlife partnerships and associated

projects;

5. Assistance with a variety of other wildlife initiatives/projects,

including FAUNA, WFRP, MIS surveys, preparation of annual Forest Monitoring

and Evaluation Report, budget preparation, annual breeding bird census,

interpretive/educational projects, and much more.

6. Serves as the Districts' Wildlife Biologist in charge of the

wildlife, karst, botanical, fisheries, and range programs. This includes

consultation with Fish and Wildlife Service in the management of Threatened

and Endangered species.

Because the districts are located in the Ozark Highlands and Mississippi

Alluvial Plain (Crowley's Ridge) physiographic areas, habitat is provided

for a wide variety of species including at least 15 bat species and many

neo-tropical birds. At the Sylamore Ranger District, unique habitats created

by the Ozark Highlands and karst features create a wide diversity of plant

and cave species. The district affords excellent opportunities for wildlife

viewing, as well as hunting and fishing. The habitats associated with the

St. Francis Ranger District are the rich bottomland hardwoods, which afford

similar opportunities in wildlife viewing, hunting, fishing as well as

outdoor recreation.

The Sylamore and St. Francis districts maintain a number of valued

partnerships in the performance of their stewardship responsibilities.

Included in this list are:

* National Wild Turkey Federation and Ducks Unlimited

* Arkansas Association for Cave Studies and The Nature Conservancy

* Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Arkansas Natural Heritage

Commission and Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism