Biologist 3

Job Overview:

The incumbent organizes, coordinates and implements a statewide wildlife management program for forested state trust lands, under general supervision. Advises DNRC personnel, including three Area biologists, in matters related to management of federally listed Threatened and Endangered species, wildlife habitat, forest ecology, and forest management. Recommends statewide policy, programs, habitat models and actions that develop, preserve, or maintain wildlife habitats and associated populations. Represents the Department and Division on state and federal interagency committees and working groups such as the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem Grizzly Bear Subcommittee and Montana Natural Heritage Program Partners group. Forms, coordinates, and serves on internal DNRC working groups formed to facilitate development of state forest management policy and procedures. Selects from a variety of established scientific research methods and techniques appropriate to specific data collection, modeling, and analysis needs to perform a wide variety of tasks. Coordinates project activities, analyzes data, integrates natural resource policy and research through scientific literature review, and provides recommendations through oral and written technical reports. Considerable professional judgment, data management, and writing skills are needed to recognize, interpret, and correlate a diverse and ever-expanding body of information on many aspects of wildlife habitat management, conservation biology, forestry, and climate change. The position is solely responsible for the technical accuracy of work.