Biological Science Technician (Wildlife)

Employee will work as part of a field crew to conduct natural resource management duties. Fieldwork may include, set up and sampling vegetation plots to help determine impacts of white-tailed deer on national park resources, monitoring areas for flooding caused by beaver dams and removal of dams, setting up and maintaining automated recording devices (acoustic recorders) for bats, and other wildlife monitoring and management duties. Incumbent may use tools and operate equipment such as chainsaws, brush cutters/clearing saws, hand saws, loppers, pruners, backpack sprayers and herbicide to remove undesirable plants. Incumbent may be required to use an ATV or UTV to access field sites. Project work may be mapped using GIS technology. Work will be adaptive with other tasks assigned as necessary to achieve work goals.