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Wyoming Game & Fish Lander Non-game Mammal Biologist/Senior Wildlife Biologist in Lander, Wyoming
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is seeking to hire a Nongame Mammologist to help implement Wyoming's State Wildlife Action Plan in either Casper or Lander. This would include coordinating and implementing Wyoming's Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse recovery and monitoring/management of other nongame mammal species (excluding bats and forest carnivore species).
- Coordinates nongame mammal management by developing and implementing internal and external projects that address needs identified in Wyoming's State Wildlife Action Plan and benefit nongame Species of Greatest Conservation Need.
- Represent the Department on a wide variety of interagency recovery, conservation, and working groups.
- Develops and disseminates technical and non-technical information regarding assigned nongame mammals to the public, agencies, and NGOs.
- Maintains and updates nongame databases to ensure contiguous and seamless data.
- Coordinates the management, conservation, inventory, and monitoring of Threatened, Endangered, and Species of Greatest Conservation needs across multi-jurisdictional boundaries.
- Establishes management goals and objectives, conducts field surveys, and analyzes data; collaborates with Department personnel to plan habitat proposals to ensure consideration of game and nongame needs.
- Makes recommendations to guide policies or procedures by diagnosing and addressing complex programs that require technical knowledge.
- Reviews all biologic data on assigned nongame mammal species collected within the work unit and fulfills annual reporting requirements.
- Provides comments on Wildlife Environmental Reviews to the Department's Habitat Protection Program and assists Regional Wildlife Biologists with their review process.
- Hires and directs work of temporary employees to conduct nongame mammal monitoring.
Education:
Bachelor's Degree (typically in Wildlife Management) Experience:
1-2 years progressive work experience (typically in Wildlife Management) with acquired knowledge at the level of a Wildlife Biologist II
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
None
OR
Education & Experience Substitution:
4-6 years of progressive work experience (typically in Wildlife Management) with acquired knowledge at the level of a Wildlife Biologist II