The California Department of Fish and Wildlife seeks an Environmental Scientist for a limited term position.
$4,145.00 - $7,926.00 per Month
Final Filing Date: 12/22/2022
This position will help achieve the goals created by Senate Bills (SB) 85, 170 and 178. SB 85, 170and 178, chapter 14 Forest Health Initiative, support of forest health projects—including fire prevention, fuels reduction, vegetation management, environmental review, and/or post fire vegetation restoration projects.
This employee will consult with and assist Department Lands Programs and other Programs with lands responsibilities in meeting the objectives of SB-170 Wildfire Resilient State Lands. The Environmental Scientist is responsible for performing duties related to SB-170 and SB-178 Wildfire Resiliency including developing fire hazard assessments and ecologically sound fuels reduction plans and projects on Department lands, coordinating field work activities and landscape planning necessary to develop fuel reduction plans and projects, collecting and organizing data, preparing environmental documents and correspondence, and answering routine questions from the public relative to the Department’s Wildfire Resiliency projects.
Partial list of duties includes being able to perform assigned natural resource management tasks including investigations, analysis, research, fish and wildlife habitat and species surveys, and studies involving forestland, rangeland, and shrubland resiliency and fire hazard risk, necessary to prepare for conducting fuels reduction, and habitat management on Department owned lands for the purposes of wildfire resiliency, defensible space, infrastructure protection, and species and habitat conservation. Coordinate with other interested parties on landscape-wide fuel treatment strategies and wildfire risk tools. Fuels reduction and hazard mitigation project plans may include but not be limited to tree removal and/or pruning, prescribed fire, livestock grazing, mastication or herbicide application. Layout project area boundaries, flag natural and cultural resource protection zones, prepare maps with GIS support, validate maps, and conduct surveys to collect data.
There is one position but the applicant can pick either Shasta or Siskiyou County; see the links below for the applications for each county:
https://www.calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=344184
https://www.calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=344182
