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Incumbent will provide leadership, organization, expertise & support to a complex vegetation & timber management program on both the Tahoe and Eldorado NFs. This position's duty location will be on either the Eldorado or Tahoe National Forest (NF). Select preferred duty location(s). Duty location to be determined at time of job offer. For additional information, contact Michelle Havens at 530-621-5218 or michelle.havens@usda.gov OR Dave Fournier at 530-478-6238 or david.fournier@usda.gov
Major Duties
- Duties listed are at the full performance level.
- This position supervises 20% or less of the time.
- Review and evaluate the Unit vegetation resource to determine the Unit's capacity to meet potential sale quantity, protection needs and regeneration capability.
- Serve as the Unit level specialist with responsibility for technical expertise and development and/or review of timber sale planning, sale and contract preparation, administration, post-sale treatments, silviculture, and forest pest management.
- Oversee maintenance of silvicultural/cultural expertise on a multi-level Unit.
- Serve as the Unit contact for vegetation, fuels, and timber management-related issues within the region.
- Maintain cooperative relationships with local, county, State, other federal officials, civic groups, cooperators, contractors, permittees and the public.
- Participate in interdisciplinary planning efforts at multiple scales.
- Unit, integrating the program by utilizing an interdisciplinary, ecosystem orientated approach in coordination with a variety of resource specialists (i.e., fire/fuels, timber, range, fish and wildlife, recreation, etc.)
- Develop Unit level vegetation management inventories, which include analysis to determine areas requiring long-range vegetation management in terms of the total ecosystem.
- Oversee a complex program of management activities, including vegetation, fuels and timber sale management, in order to meet Unit land and multiple-use resource management plan goals and objectives.
- Determine the effectiveness of on-going management actions and alternatives to help achieve ecosystem goals and objectives more effectively.
- Assess environmental impacts on forest resources.
- Prepare vegetation management program budget needs.
- Formulate operating procedures to preserve natural resources and forestry procedures for unusual environmental situations.
- Prepare decisions to protests and appeals related to vegetation, fuels and timber management issues.
- Review environmental analysis reports, environmental assessments, and environmental impact statements for technical adequacy.
- Prepare reports regarding reforestation, fuels and forest stand improvement programs, timber, rangeland and other vegetation management programs on the Unit.
- Plan the work to be accomplished by assigning work to employees and establishing production or quality standards for the unit?s work.
- Foster an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual differences are leveraged to achieve the vision and mission of the organization.
Qualifications
In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary. This is an interdisciplinary position and may be filled in any of the job series listed below. Basic Requirement:
GS-0401:
Degree: biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position.
OR
Combination of education and experience: Courses equivalent to a major, as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. GS-0460:
Degree: forestry; or a related subject-matter field that included a total of at least 30 semester hours in any combination of biological, physical, or mathematical sciences or engineering, of which at least 24 semester hours of course work were in forestry. The curriculum must have been sufficiently diversified to include courses in each of the following areas:
-Management of Renewable Resources -- study of the science and art of managing renewable resources to attain desired results. Examples of creditable courses in this area include silviculture, forest management operations, timber management, wildland fire science or fire management, utilization of forest resources, forest regulation, recreational land management, watershed management, and wildlife or range habitat management.
-Forest Biology -- study of the classification, distribution, characteristics, and identification of forest vegetation, and the interrelationships of living organisms to the forest environment. Examples of creditable courses in this area include dendrology, forest ecology, silvics, forest genetics, wood structure and properties, forest soils, forest entomology, and forest pathology.
-Forest Resource Measurements and Inventory -- sampling, inventory, measurement, and analysis techniques as applied to a variety of forest resources. Examples of creditable courses include forest biometrics, forest mensuration, forest valuation, statistical analysis of forest resource data, renewable natural resources inventories and analysis, and photogrammetry or remote sensing.
OR
Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in forestry, or at least 30 semester hours in any combination of biological, physical, or mathematical sciences or engineering, of which at least 24 semester hours were in forestry. The requirements for diversification of the 24 semester hours in forestry are the same as shown above, plus appropriate experience or additional education. In addition to meeting the basic requirement, you must also possess experience and/or directly related education in the amounts listed below. Specialized Experience Requirement: For the GS-11: You must have one year specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-09) in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include: Conducted examinations of timber compartments and stands on the unit and evaluates the conditions found; Monitored and oversaw cruising and marking of timber and prepared general logging plans and verified logging system settings; Determined sale boundaries, proper location of logging roads, acceptable marking and cutting methods, stumpage prices, and the requirements for brush disposal, erosion control, and stand improvement; Completed environmental assessment reports and environmental impact statements; OR 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree (coursework directly related to position being filled); OR an appropriate combination of specialized experience and graduate level education (beyond what is required for a master's degree, i.e., more than 36 semester hours leading to a Ph.D.). For the GS-12: You must have one year specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-11) in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include: Participated in the development of short and long term action plans associated with an integrated vegetation management program and associated budgets; Developed technical guides and standards for timber marking and sale preparation, contract selection and preparation, and harvesting techniques to meet integrated program objectives in collaboration with first level units and staff areas; Conducted team-based technical field reviews of project implementation of timber sales and integrated resources contracts to assess consistency with Forest Service direction and develops recommendations for the improvement of overall forest techniques and policies to meet product accountability requirements; Worked with resource specialists to resolve vegetative management issues such as methodology for meeting silviculture prescriptions, designating timber, preparing stewardship and timber sale contracts, and identifying restoration work to be included in stewardship contracts. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
Pay Range
$69,761.00 - $108,705.00