FISH AND WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST

Fish And Wildlife Biologist

As a Fish And Wildlife Biologist your duties will include but are not limited to the following:

1. Evaluating and analyzing recovery permit applications, preparing environmental compliance for those applications, and issuing recovery permits.
2. Coordinates and facilitates activities pursuant to sections 4,6,7,8, and 10 of the Endangered Species Act. In particular on recovery planning and implementation. Plans and conducts status surveys for both listed and candidate species, in cooperation with other Federal and state agency personnel, private organization representatives, and contractors; negotiates agreements for status surveys with prospective contractors and personnel of cooperating agencies.
3. Acts as technical advisor to other Field Office staff on the habitat needs of rare, candidate, proposed, and federally listed species. Coordinates wide ranging initiatives involving other Federal and state agencies, organizations, and the public in fully implementing Endangered Species Act programs.
4. Prepares written correspondence, reports, and papers for publication, based on the literature, observations made, and investigations conducted. Reports and papers are used to analyze current conditions and assess implications of future actions on rare, candidate, proposed, threatened and endangered species and their habitats.
5. Plans, investigates, conducts, and reviews on-site ecological investigations on a wide variety of the most complex and diverse Federal land and water resource development proposals to determine their effects on fish and wildlife resources, with special emphasis on rare, candidate, proposed, federally listed threatened and endangered species habitat, riparian habitat, wetland ecology and management, and other habitats of concern in the affected area.
6. Prepares objective and complete written reports and other documents and delivers oral presentations to Service, other agency and organization professional, and public groups based on investigations conducted, analyzing present and future impacts of various complex project alternatives on fish and wildlife resources and economic/recreational uses thereof.