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Deming Pre-Sales Forester, Natural Resource Specialist 2 (NRS2)/NRS1 In-Training Recruitment #2024-5-3936 Full-time, Permanent, Represented position * *Location flexibility may be available and considered: Northwest Region - Sedro Woolley, WA Work Hours and Partial Telework flexibility may be available and considered Salary: $3,700.00 - $5,615.00 Monthly   Baker District is actively seeking a Presales Forester. The position will have a duty station in Sedro Woolley, WA. The varied terrain and microclimates in the Baker District provide many forestry challenges in timber sale layout. The successful candidate oversees the design of timber sales for the district's timber sale program, which will include boundary traversing, collecting and analyzing plot data, incorporating the Department's Habitat Conservation Plan, Policy for Sustainable Forests, and applicable Forest Practices Rules into the design, completing all documentation and analyses including a Forest Practices Application and SEPA, and developing silvicultural prescriptions for long term management. If you enjoy forestry challenges and watching your work come to fruition, this is the place for you!

Responsibilities (see official listing for full details): Presales Design

• Research and analyze the operational feasibility of harvest units. Develop a feasible timber harvest plan using GIS, LIDAR, logging system analysis software, aerial photos, field observations, and maps and consult with engineers, biologists, other foresters, and the unit forester to implement good presales designs and forest road planning. Operational feasibility is critical.
• Research and devise appropriate silvicultural prescriptions, review, and analyze similar stand prescriptions, and utilize GIS, department planning and database software, growth and yield models, department protocols, Forest Practice Rules, and field observations while consulting with the region silviculturist and in some cases the biologist to devise a plan to successfully regenerate harvested areas or plan habitat treatments that meet department policies.
• Foster good working relations with community members and adjacent landowners and be transparent about our operations. Communicate and negotiate with adjacent landowners and external groups through various means including public meetings, and field site visits, and use written and oral communication strategies to resolve property line discrepancies, cost share agreements, and access for state lands projects. Present during education and information-sharing opportunities.
• Implement Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) requirements and Policy for Sustainable Forest (PSF) requirements on state lands, such as legacy cohorts and sensitive area protections like potentially unstable slopes, riparian areas, old growth stands, and cultural resources, all while maintaining a feasible harvest operation by coordinating site visits and consulting with biologists, geologists, archeologists, and silviculturists. Assess, review, and implement all applicable policies, rules, and regulations and incorporate any specialist input into the presales design process and timber sales contract.
• Analyze and ensure all planned timber sale units are safe, meet economic and fiduciary requirements, complement long-term watershed and landscape objectives, and protect or mitigate environmental concerns. Harvest units will be examined and selected by analyzing ecological, economic, and social constraints.

Potential for Timber Sale Compliance

Ensure contract requirements are reviewed and understood by coordinating a pre-work meeting with the purchaser and operator. Ensure contract requirements are met during active logging o