The Great Basin Institute, in cooperation with the USFS, is recruiting Forestry Technicians to perform timber sale-preparation, vegetation management and restoration projects in the Sierra Nevada region. 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.
Landscape Ecologist
Forestry and Fuels Program Assistant Director
The Watershed Research and Training Center is seeking a Forestry and Fuels Program Assistant Director to play “a key leadership role in the Forestry and Fuels Program, supporting strategic oversight, operational effectiveness, and programmatic impact across the program and four divisions. This role is responsible for ensuring operational excellence, staff support, and successful project implementation across the program.”
Senior Forester
The Watershed Research and Training Center is seeking a Senior Forester to “provide broad support to various projects within the scope of the Watershed Center’s Forestry and Fuels Program with a focus on planning and administering complex forestry and hazardous fuels reduction projects on public and private lands including prioritization, unit delineation, environmental compliance (NEPA, CEQA, CA Forest Practice Act), layout and implementation support.”
Assistant/Associate Specialist in Fuels and Fire Ecology
Applied Landscape Ecologist
USDA FS Fire and Drought Mortality Impacts on Root-Zone Hydrology
“A fellowship opportunity is available with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) within the Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSWRS). This project is based at three long-term ecohydrological research sites (Soaproot, Newt Creek, and Providence), which are managed by the PSWRS of the USDA FS in the Sierra Nevada.”
Assistant/Associate Professor of Wildland Urban Interface Fire Science
The Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo is seeking an Assistant/Associate Professor of Wildland Urban Interface Fire Science whose “interests address the range of economic, climatic, social, and conservation challenges facing WUI systems in the western US and Southern California in particular.”
Lead Wildland Firefighter (3 openings)
Outreach Technician / Environmental Technician II
USDA-FS Tribal Values, Fire, and Fuels Treatments Fellow
Project Coordinator (Forest Health and Wildfire Resilience)
Field Coordinator (2 openings)
Community Education Coordinator
Ecologist III
Assistant/Associate Professor of Forest Operations
The Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo is seeking an Assistant/Associate Professor of Forest Operations whose scholarship addresses “the range of climatic and conservation challenges facing forests in the West, including how aspects of forest harvest operations and fuels reduction can be applied to address these challenges.”
Fire Manager and Training Officer
Assistant/Associate Professor of Wildland Urban Interface Fire Science
The Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo is seeking an Assistant/Associate Professor of Wildland Urban Interface Fire Science whose “interests address the range of economic, climatic, social, and conservation challenges facing WUI systems in the western US and Southern California in particular.”