This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Northwest Regional Office, Fire, Duty Station TBD in one of the following locations: Portland, OR, Ronan, MT, Missoula, MT, Pendleton, OR, or Nespelem, WA.
Applications close Apirl 10.
Duties
Assist the assigned set of Regions, Agencies, and Tribes to incorporate information about the interactions among fire regimes, condition class, fire climate, fuels, fire effects, and ecological processes into ecosystem-level planning.
Assess the effects of fire exclusion, fire suppression, and fuels management activities on fire behavior potential, associated fire effects, risk reduction, site productivity, vegetative structure and composition, and successional changes.
Provide or arrange for technical assistance to Tribes and Agencies related to planning, implementation, and monitoring and coordinates the acquisition and transfer of fire/fuel treatment effects information.
Provide scientific expertise and advice on vegetation sampling methods, and monitoring protocols.
Coordinate program activities with neighboring federal, state, local, and tribal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and fire research networks.
Coordinate the implementation of the policies, standards, and requirements of the Branch of Wildland Fire Management related to fire ecology and fire/fuels treatment monitoring.
Maintain awareness of scientific and technological developments in wildland fire science and proficiency in current and emerging fire/fuels software.
