Position Outreach
Rocky Mountain Region, USDA Forest Service
Forestry Technician (Recreation)
GS-0462-5/6/7, Shoshone National Forest, Wapiti Ranger District, Cody, WY
is accomplished and surveys entered into the
database.
Winter
operations
include
snowmobile patrol and monitoring.
Position Information
The Shoshone National Forest, Wapiti
Ranger District may be filling a permanant
full time Forestry Technician (Recreation),
GS-0462-5/6/7, position located on the North
Zone in Cody, Wyoming. This notification is
being circulated to inform prospective
applicants of this upcoming opportunity. If
you wish to express interest please return
the attached voluntary outreach interest
form by December 31, 2013. Please see the
following information on the position, the
Shoshone National Forest, and the
community.
Desired skills for the position:
 Organizational skills and ability to
coordinate the management of a
complex operation
 Maintenance, construction, or repair
experience
 Water sampling and water system
operation
 Service
Contracting
Officer
Representative certification
 Snowmobile operation in mountain
terrain
 Avalanche training and winter sports
skills
 ATV experience
 Forest Protection Officer certification
 Ability to communicate well with the
public and organizational groups.
 Ability to safely/properly address conflict
situations related Grizzly Bears.
 Experience in National Forest or Park
recreation
 Collection Officer Certification
The Position:
This position is a part of the management of the
developed recreation program on the North
Zone of the Shoshone. The incumbent will be
responsible for customer service and the
operation of seven developed campgrounds,
twelve trailheads, and a rental cabin as well as
scenic overlooks and concentrated use areas.
Supervision of three or four seasonal
employees and eight volunteer campground
hosts is standard. The Lead Technician must
ensure campground and trailhead maintenance
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For a complete description of the Forest,
including photos, see our WEB PAGE (click) at
http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/shoshone/.
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT: Shoshone
National Forest is considering all applicants.
This position may be hired using the Federal
Government direct hiring authorities, such as;
Schedule A (Persons with Disabilities), VRA
(Veterans with 30% disability or more) and
possible reassignments for qualified GS 5 or
higher employees currently working for the
Federal Government. The positions will be
posted on the U.S. Government's official
website for employment opportunities at
www.usajobs.gov. All applicants who respond
to this outreach and qualify for direct hiring
authority will be referred to the hiring official
for consideration. All candidates may apply to
the vacancy announcement when advertised in
USAJobs.
We encourage you to express interest for this
position. Please respond by December 31,
2013 Please send attached form to
jlyons01@fs.fed.us.
Cody:
Cody, Wyoming, located 52 miles from the east
entrance to Yellowstone National Park, was
founded in 1887 by Colonel William F. "Buffalo
Bill" Cody. Cody continues to prosper with its
diverse economy, which includes oil/minerals,
agriculture, timbering, light industry and
tourism. Year-round recreational opportunities
are almost limitless in Cody with the
surrounding mountains, forest and wilderness
areas.
The Forest:
The Shoshone National Forest was established
in 1891 as a part of the Yellowstone Timberland
Reserve. The forest is an integral part of the 10
million acre Greater Yellowstone Area which is
centered in Yellowstone National Park. The
Shoshone consists of 2,470,430 acres of varied
terrain ranging from sagebrush flats to rugged
mountain peaks. Over one half of the forest is
designated wilderness. With Yellowstone
National Park on its western border, the
Shoshone encompasses an area from the
Montana state line south to Lander, Wyoming,
and includes portions of the Absaroka, Wind
River, and Beartooth mountain ranges. The
western boundary of the forest to south of
Yellowstone is the crest of the Continental
Divide. Elevations on the Shoshone ranges
from 4,600 feet at the south of the spectacular
Clarks Fork Canyon, to 13,804 feet on Gannett
Peak, Wyoming's highest point.
Cody is the county seat of Park County and is
located 100 miles south of Billings, Montana;
492 miles north of Denver, Colorado; 214 miles
northwest of Casper, Wyoming and is 5,095
feet above sea level.
The population of Cody is approximately
10,000. Temperatures average 23 degrees in
January and 72 degrees in July. Annual rainfall
averages 9.4 inches; snowfall averages 35.20
inches yearly. Sunshine brightens the sky more
than 300 days a year. Snow does not stay long
on the ground here in the winter. In January or
February, 50 degree days are not unusual.
Warm Chinook winds usually melt the snow
within two or three days of a storm.
The community of Cody offers numerous
churches, doctors, dentists, an excellent
hospital, a nursing home, public library, 6
banks, local shopping, a movie theatre, a senior
citizen center, a volunteer fire department,
Search and Rescue, police department, sheriff's
department, and an airport with daily connects
to Denver and Salt Lake City.
There are five Ranger Districts on the
Shoshone National Forest: the Clarks Fork,
Wapiti and Greybull Ranger Districts are
consolidated into the North Zone which is
headquartered in Cody, Wyoming; Wind River
located in Dubois, WY; and Washakie located
in Lander, WY.
Cody's school district is one of the finest in the
Rocky Mountain area.
Five elementary
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schools, one middle school and one senior high
school have an average student to teacher ratio
of less than 20 to 1. Several private and
Christian schools also are available. Thirty
minutes away in Powell is Northwest College, a
fully accredited junior college.
Cody has available housing for rental or
purchasing. Average rental price is $700 per
month for singles and $900 to $1,200 for
famlies with a median purchase price of
$240,200 Property taxes are low. Cody boasts
tax rates among the lowest in the nation. State
sales tax is 4%, with NO State or local income
tax.
Visitors come from all over the world to see the
Buffalo Bill Historical Center--actually four
museums under one roof--The Whitney Gallery
of Western Art, The Buffalo Bill Museum, The
Plains Indian Museum, and the Cody Firearms
Museum. Cody has a lively fine art community
and several art galleries.
Annual cultural
events include the Jazz Festival, Plains Indian
Pow Wow, and the Cody Stampede Rodeos,
just to name a few.
There are five rivers flowing out of the Absaroka
Mountains near Cody and modern day
explorers have spent a lifetime learning their
way around just one of those drainages. Each
river begins back in the high mountains where
meadows team with wildlife and glacier fed
streams and lakes are full of native cutthroat
trout in one of the largest wilderness
ecosystems in the world. Choose from rodeo,
fishing, hunting, horseback riding, backpacking,
mountaineering, mountain biking, wind surfing,
golfing, water skiing, boating, rock hunting,
bowling, roller skating, tennis, hiking, snow
skiing, snowmobiling, camping, picnicking, or
just take a relaxing day on any one of several
world class scenic loop tour drives.
For more information contact the Cody
Chamber of Commerce at (click)
http://www.codychamber.org/
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OUTREACH NOTICE FORM
SHOSHONE NATIONAL FOREST
____ Forestry Technician (Recreation)
NAME:__________________________________________________
EMAIL ADDRESS:___________________________________________
MAILING ADDRESS:_______________________________________
________________________________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER:______________________________________
AGENCY EMPLOYED WITH:_____USFS _____BLM
TYPE OF APPOINTMENT:_____PERMANENT
_____VRA
_____OTHER
_____TEMPORARY
_____PWD
_____TERM
_____OTHER
CURRENT REGION/FOREST/DISTRICT:_________________________
CURRENT SERIES AND GRADE:________________________________
CURRENT POSITION TITLE:____________________________________
IF NOT A CURRENT PERMANENT (CAREER OR CAREER-CONDITIONAL) EMPLOYEE, ARE YOU
ELIGIBLE TO BE REHIRED UNDER ANY OF THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL AUTHORITIES?
_____PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
_____VETERANS READJUSTMENT
_____DISABLED VETERANS WITH 30% COMPENSABLE DISABILITY
_____VETERANS EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ACT OF 1998
_____FORMER PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER
_____STUDENT CAREER EXPERIENCE PROGRAM
_____OTHER______________________________________________
Thank you for your interest in our positon.
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