05/29/2023
Our colleagues at the Bureau of Land Management would like to highlight the following vacancies for Foresters. There are multiple vacancies in OR (please view the link for exact locations). Come utilize your experience in planning, team coordination, and project management to help manage our forests and natural resources with the BLM!
Please share widely with anyone you think may be interested.
Application Close: 06-01-2023
Grade: GS 5/9
Location: Various locations (see below)
Title: Forester, 0460
Agency: Bureau of Land Management
Application Link: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/725941400
Responsibilities:
- The forester may serve as a member of ID team that develops and designs projects for the forest management program. He/she would identify forest management activities on specific tracts which result in the Field Office meeting its ASQ and RMP commitment.
- The forester serves as a Field Office harvesting and logging systems technical specialist. He/she prepares viable and acceptable logging and harvest plans. Identifies and finds solutions to road location, harvesting, logging, site preparation, fire protection, fuels/slash treatment, and environmental protection problems and concerns.
- The forester prepares a variety of timber sale and silvicultural service contracts. Contracts must fully implement accepted plans, agency policies, and multiple resource management objectives. Contracts must be legally exacting, clearly specified, and readily enforceable. Designs contract provisions based upon field conditions, knowledge of past practices, and policy and guidelines.
- He/she evaluates timber sale requirements and ongoing operations to insure that resource management and environmental protection goals are achieved.
- He/she inspects operations to ensure contract compliance and interprets contract provisions consistently. Makes on-the-spot decisions and gives instructions to operators to resolve sale issues. The forester prepares all correspondence, documentation, and bills for each sale.
- He/she prescribes silvicultural and site preparation treatments based on field exams of stand conditions and other resource values.
To review more information and for all the locations, please visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/725941400
If you have any questions, please reach out to Scott Sneaker at [email protected], or the individual duty station offices.
These positions are located in the Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Offices located in Medford, North Bend, Roseburg, Salem, Springfield, and Tillamook, Oregon. This position is concurrently open to all U.S. Citizens under Announcement Number OR-23-DE-11952458-EKS.
