The Department of Fish and Wildlife is recruiting to fill four (4) full time career seasonal Natural Resource Worker 2 positions located in Loomis WA, for the Wildlife Program. The duty station for these positions is the Sinlahekin Wildlife Area with work performed in Okanogan County. These positions are anticipated to work from March 1st-; November 30th each year.

The incumbents of these positions will perform semi-skillled natural resource related labor activities and/or technical natural resource management activities under explicit guidance as a member of a Prescribed Burn Module. Duties include burn unit preparation with fire line construction, collecting data on pre- and post-burn vegetation monitoring, fuels surveys and sampling; tree thinning, ignition, control, mop-up, equipment maintenance, record keeping. All staff actively participating on a prescribed burn must be qualified as a FFT2 (Basic Firefighter). The Burn Module Member may perform other wildlife area management duties as assigned.

Location: Loomis, WA
Deadline: 7/22/2012
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Expiration: 7/23/2012
Region(s): Northwest
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
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