Description
Assess, manage, and protect land, water, wildlife, and other natural resources by conducting field surveys, analyses, and compliance reviews. Develop and implement management plans, restoration and monitoring programs, and permitting documents, and advise stakeholders to ensure conservation, regulatory compliance, and sustainable use.
- • Conduct field audits, compliance inspections, and investigations of natural resource use or habitat impacts.
- • Evaluate compliance issues and recommend enforcement actions or corrective measures.
- • Interpret and implement natural resource and environmental standards, guidelines, and regulations.
- • Advise on policies, management strategies, and best practices for conservation and sustainable use.
- • Analyze ecological and resource data to assess conditions, trends, and human impacts.
- • Design sampling protocols and data collection methods for inventories and monitoring.
- • Prepare maps, charts, and summaries conveying resource status and management implications.
- • Draft technical sections of permits, environmental assessments, mitigation plans, or consent orders.
- • Investigate and document incidents affecting resources, such as spills, wildfire, erosion, or fish kills.
- • Monitor development, extraction, or recreation projects for resource impacts and compliance.
- • Develop and implement land, water, forest, or habitat management and restoration programs.
- • Identify sources of degradation and develop control or remediation methods.
- • Track effects of management actions and recommend adaptive measures.
- • Design or direct studies to support planning, NEPA analyses, or conservation projects.
- • Recommend practices to reduce impacts of agriculture, forestry, energy, or mining operations.
- • Build and apply statistical or geospatial models for resource planning and analysis.
- • Collect, manage, and report data from vegetation surveys, wildlife counts, stream and soil sampling, or remote sensing.
- • Communicate technical findings to landowners, tribes, agencies, and the public through reports and meetings.
- • Provide technical assistance and oversight to programs, field crews, or partner organizations.
- • Review and process resource-related permits, licenses, and conservation agreements.
- • Supervise and train technicians, interns, or volunteers in field methods and data management.
- • Conduct applied research on restoration, invasive species control, watershed health, or habitat connectivity.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
