OUTREACH NOTICE/VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Wildlife Biologist PFT-GS-0486-09
Three Rivers Ranger District
The vacancy announcement for this position is posted at the USA Jobs website, the U.S. Government’s official site for jobs and employment information: http://www.usajobs.opm.gov
Exciting opportunities are in store for this professional wildlife biologist position! The incumbent primarily serves on interdisciplinary teams and provides wildlife input to planning and implementing management projects, including large-scale forest vegetation treatments, aquatic habitat restoration, range management, and other management activities. The incumbent will draft NEPA documents, Biological Evaluations and Assessments, and other wildlife-related input to projects to assess the effects of projects on a variety of species, including threatened and endangered, sensitive, management indicator species, and other species of concern. Knowledge of the effects of common land management activities on wildlife species and habitat, skills in identifying and conducting habitat improvement projects, and ability to use word processing and geographic information systems software to analyze, interpret, and display information are fundamental to the position. The incumbent works under the guidance of senior wildlife staff and will be supervised by a Zone Supervisory Environmental Coordinator.
The Colville National Forest is a high performing unit in the national spotlight for innovative approaches to meeting natural resource restoration goals. We have vibrant and active collaborative partners and excellent relations with neighboring Tribes. We manage habitat for several endangered species and have close and effective working relationship with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
This is a permanent full time position with duty station at the Three Rivers Ranger District in Kettle Falls, WA.
This notification is being circulated to inform perspective applicants of this upcoming opportunity. All potential applicants who respond to this outreach will be sent the link to the vacancy announcement when it is available. We expect the vacancy announcement will posted at http:// www.usajobs.gov in March, 2014. We anticipate requesting a referral list in April, 2014. For more information on this position please contact:
Jean Lavell, West Zone Environmental Coordinator at 509738-7737,
About the Colville National Forest
Tucked into the northeastern corner of Washington State and nestled at the foot of the northern Rockies, the Colville National Forest is an exquisite landscape of forested mountains, clear mountain streams and fertile valleys. The 1.1 million acre forest was shaped by glaciers that carved three major valleys: the Columbia, Sanpoil-Curlew, and Pend Oreille River valleys.
The Forest has three Ranger Districts: Three Rivers Ranger District, Newport-Sullivan Lake Ranger District and the Republic Ranger District. Each unit tends to have distinctly different zones, each with its unique climate, topography, and vegetation. Each district office is located in one of the major river drainages: the Sanpoil-Curlew River Valleys, the Kettle-Colville-Columbia River Valleys, and the Pend Oreille River Valley. Topography is varied, ranging from rounded mountain slopes at low elevations to high peaks and basins above 7,300 feet in elevation.
The ecology of the Colville is diverse with forests ranging from ponderosa pine and Douglas fir on drier sites to western red cedar, western hemlock, western white pine and a variety of deciduous species on wetter sites. The Forest also has a significant expanse of lodgepole pine and the famously beautiful western larch. Approximately 25% of the Forest was burned in the infamous wildfires of 1910. There are four distinct seasons. Average annual precipitation ranges from 24 to 28 inches in the valleys to 30 to 40 inches at higher elevations. Winter and spring are the wettest months of the year with snow common from November thru March. Summer temperatures may exceed 100 degrees for 1 to 5 days and winter minimum temperature can fall below zero degrees Fahrenheit for 5 to 12 nights each year. Normal summertime temperatures range from the upper 80’s and low 90’s during the day down to the 50’s and 60’s at night.
For more information on the Kettle Falls/Colville,WA area go to http://colville.com/.
OUTREACH RESPONSE FORM
Please respond by March 14, 2014.
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Position Title/Series/Grade: / Wildlife Biologist PFT-GS 486-09Location: / Region 6, Colville National Forest, Kettle Falls, WA
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