The Prescribed Fire Practitioner plays a key role in advancing the mission of a dynamic conservation organization that stewards over 5,000 acres of protected land and works closely with private landowners, government agencies, other organizations, and the community to bring “good fire” to the landscape. Working as part of the collaborative and highly motivated Fire Forward program, this work is performed in service of ecological health and community safety and is rooted in healing our relationship with the land and each other.
Fire Ecology Field Technician
The Fire Ecology Field Technicians performs a variety of routine tasks that assists the implementation of fire monitoring work plans within the Forest Program. The Technicians will work from the Flagstaff office and field sites throughout the Flagstaff area. This a short-term, temporary, non-exempt, position expected to be funded through December 2026 and could change based on business needs.
Southern Wisconsin Burn Crew Member
Program Coordinator
MS and PhD Student Opportunities
Utah State University’s Quinney College of Agriculture & Natural Resources seeks an MS student and a PhD student to join our cohort of National Needs Fellows (NNF), in support of United Stated Department of Agriculture project funded to facilitate management of Forest Service, Region 4 Disaster Recovery.
Postdoctoral Scholar
The Postdoctoral Scholar will join a highly collaborative research team within the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) at NAU and will work closely with Dr. Michelle Mack, Dr. Xanthe Walker, and Dr. Ted Schuur. The project integrates field-based measurements, soil biogeochemistry, radiocarbon dating, and quantitative modeling to estimate soil carbon turnover, fluxes, and long-term stability following wildfire and fuel treatments.
Assistant Professor of Range Management
Land Conservation Steward
The Land Conservation Steward performs and participates in preserve operations, maintenance and management on TNC’s preserves, located in Central Florida. The Land Conservation Steward is a staff member of the Stewardship and Field Programs Department (SAF) of The Nature Conservancy’s Florida Chapter (TNC).
Communications Coordinator
Dean, Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture
Postdoctoral Scholar: Developing modeling tools
The Ecological Restoration Institute, working in collaboration with the Rocky Mountain Research Station, seek a Postdoctoral Scholar to develop next-generation modeling tools that simulate a predefined range of silvicultural and fuels treatments and serve as the foundation for spatially explicit vegetation dynamics projections over 10–20 year planning horizons.
Postdoctoral Scholar: Spatial analysis of forest treatments
Postdoctoral Scholar: Human dimensions of forest restoration and wildfire
Assistant Land and Environmental Programs Manager
Land and Environmental Programs Manager
Research Associate I, Fire Behavior Assessment Team
Position is a collaboration between the University of Idaho, the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, and National Forest System Region 5. It coordinates and leads the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT), which supports National Forest and incident command teams with pre-, active-, and post-fire monitoring on wildfires.
Understanding evolving wildfire risk and resilience in Scotland - PhD
Manager, Restoration Ecology & Forest Resilience
The Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI) Restoration Ecology & Forest Resilience Program Manager is a lead scientist that manages and coordinates delivery of ERI’s Restoration Ecology & Forest Resilience portfolio in support of ERI and SWERI goals. The position applies subject-matter expertise in frequent-fire forest restoration, forest and fire ecology, and wildfire risk reduction to advance proactive, landscape-scale restoration treatments, fuels management, and conservation in forests and woodland ecosystems of the Intermountain West.
Fuels Reduction Technician
Western Iowa Assistant Land Steward
The Western Iowa Assistant Land Steward performs and participates in preserve operations, maintenance and management, under the direction of the Western Iowa Land Steward. Tasks include maintenance of preserve infrastructure, tools, and power equipment, invasive species control, preserve and easement monitoring, prescribed fire, and assisting with the bison herd at Broken Kettle Grasslands Preserve in Westfield, Iowa.
