Blue Mountains Province Ecologist/Analyst Position

The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest will soon be filling a permanent position for a Blue Mountains Province Ecologist/Analyst Position. This is a joint position with the Blue Mountains Service Center (Forest Health Protection) and the Northeast Oregon Area Ecology Program. The incumbent is responsible for providing a high level of ecology and analytical support to land management projects involving landscape assessment, ecological departure, and forest insect and disease risk and assessment throughout the Blue Mountains Province, which includes the Wallowa-Whitman, Umatilla, and Malheur National Forests; the Bureau of Land Management Vale and Burns Districts; and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The incumbent will personally perform the most complex ecological projects, analyses, and studies, which cover the full range of ecological work within a forest or several forests. This position will require some travel throughout the greater Blue Mountains area, and incumbent must be fit for field work, including hiking into wilderness and other relatively remote locations.

The position is located in Baker City, Oregon at the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Supervisor’s Office. The incumbent works directly for the supervisory Entomologist or the supervisory Ecologist but coordinates closely with the Region 6 Forest Health Protection Director and the Regional Ecologist.

Persons interested in this position should send a resume to Lia Spiegel at lia.spiegel@usda.gov by COB 04/15/2020. If you have questions about the position or would like to see the full outreach announcement, please contact Lia Spiegel by email or at 541-962-8532.