The Department of Lands has one (1) opening for a Lands Resource Specialist (LRS) – Private Forestry position in our St. Joe Area office, located in St. Maries, Idaho. Minimum salary of $22.73 per hour, rate of pay, will depend on qualifications and experience. The pay grade for this position is Pay Grade K.

Responsibilities: 

• Provides technical assistance to private landowners and agencies in all aspects of forestry
• Conducts inspections on logging operations for compliance with the Idaho Forest Practices Act (FPA)
• Prescribes corrective action to be taken to bring non-compliance logging operations into compliance
• Provides information and technical assistance to private landowners on cost share programs
• Conducts presentations, lectures and discussions with loggers, landowners and students
• Represents IDL on committees and at public meetings
• Participates in wildfire suppression response as needed

You must possess all the minimum qualifications listed below to pass the exam for this position. 

Experience: 

• Communicating effectively both verbally and in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience through technical reports, business correspondence, and oral presentations
• Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to produce maps and analyze spatial data

Some Knowledge of:

• State and federal laws, rules and regulations in relation to natural resource management activities
• Methods used to evaluate projects and/or data, analyzing alternatives, and making recommendations
• Public land survey legal descriptions, aerial photos and topographic and property ownership maps
• Financial analysis methods used to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions or proposals to choose the most appropriate one
• Forest management principles:
  • Silviculture principles
  • Forest mensuration
  • Dendrology
  • Forest harvest methods
  • Soils
  • Forest engineering principles (road design and construction)
• Writing and reviewing forest management plans
• Forestry best management practices (BMPs) and processes for conducting field inspections, compliance reporting, and implementing corrective action
• Idaho Forest Practices Act and associated administrative rules
• Forest entomology and forest pathology

Other:

• Possession of a valid driver’s license

To Apply: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/idaho/jobs/3856340/lands-resource-specialist-private-forestry?keywords=Lands%20resource%20specialist&pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs

Posting closes: 1/31/2023