GS-0470-5/7/9
Region 1, Idaho Panhandle National Forests, Supervisor’s Office
Duty station: Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Description:
This position serves as a soil scientist supporting programs on the Idaho Panhandle NFs and is located in the Supervisor’s Office. The primary duty of the position is to assist with and/or conduct standard surveys of soil resources on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests. This is a career ladder position with duties and responsibilities varying with grade level and reaching full potential as a GS-0470-9.
Duties:
- Conducting standard surveys of the soils resource across the entire forest
- Working with a variety of resource specialist on interdisciplinary teams
- Summarizing field data and preparing reports
Location Details:
Coeur d'Alene, known locally as the "Lake City" and by its initials “CdA”, is located at the northern end of Lake Coeur d’Alene and 30 miles east of Spokane, Washington on The Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce website provides local business information, area demographics, community information, news, resources and event
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests comprise about 2.5 million acres of public lands which lie within "the panhandle" of north Idaho and extend into eastern Washington. The Idaho Panhandle National Forests are an aggregation of the Coeur d'Alene and portions of the Kaniksu and St. Joe National Forests. There are eight local offices including the Supervisor's Office, six district offices and the Coeur d’Alene Nursery. The Forest is within nine counties in three states: Boundary, Bonner, Benewah, Kootenai, Shoshone, Latah and Clearwater Counties in Idaho; Lincoln County in Montana; and Pend Oreille County in Washington. Aquatic resources include numerous lakes, rivers and streams, that are home to bull trout, westslope cutthroat trout, sculpin, Coeur d’Alene salamanders, Idaho giant salamander, and pearlshell mussels, to name a few. The forest has an active timber program and strikes a nice balance with aquatic specific projects across the unit, dealing with road decommissioning, improving aquatic organism passage, habitat restoration, and recovery of listed species, i.e. bull trout.
If you are seeking a challenging position managing aquatic resources on an active forest, like to stay busy, and be part of a high functioning forest-wide team in a professional environment, then this may be the opportunity for you.
To Apply:
To express interest in this position, please complete the Outreach Response Form at the end of this document and return to Chandra Neils, Forest Soil Scientist, at cneils@fs.fed.us by the close of business on March 14, 2016. Please briefly describe your experience in soils on the outreach form. For more information about this position, please contact Chandra Neils at (208) 765-7445.
Outreach Form
Idaho Panhandle National Forests, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Soil Scientist, Supervisor Office
GS-0470-5/7/9
If you are interested in this position and want to receive a copy of the Vacancy Announcement, please complete this form and e-mail to cneils@fs.fed.us no later than March 14, 2016.
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