Habitat Specialist
Southeast
Posted 1 week ago
Employer: PHEASANTS FOREVER AND QUAIL FOREVER
Location: Albany, GA
Application deadline: October 7, 2024
Full position description and application instructions
Summary:
The incumbent will be part of a four-person team that will conduct habitat management work on cooperating private land and targeted public lands within designated priority geographies within Southwest Georgia as part of GADNR’s Bobwhite Quail Initiative.
Major responsibilities include:
- Implementing habitat management work on cooperating private landowners as well as public lands that includes but is not limited to herbicide application, prescribed burning, native grass/forb establishment, shrubby cover establishment, and timber stand improvement (hack and squirt or chainsaw method)
- Participating in the construction, maintenance, and repair of equipment & implements used during your work.
- Serve as burn crew member on public and private lands and maintain qualification and participate in any additional training.
- Occasionally assist with northern bobwhite quail surveys and other scientific surveys, including but not limited to spring breeding bird surveys, fall covey counts, vegetation surveys, and management of automated recording units (ARU) on private and conservation lands.
- And more…