Rocky Mountain Region
Shoshone National Forest
NORTH ZONE
CLARKS FORK, GREYBULL, AND WAPITI RANGER DISTRICTS, CODY,
WYOMING
Forestry Technician GS-0462-5/6/7
The Position will be flown Merit Promotion and Demo
**Outreach Notice**
ABOUT THE POSITION:
The incumbent will serve as crew lead of a timber management crew focused
primarily on timber sale preparation.
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Performs and directs on-the-ground timber sale cutting unit boundary layout
considering such factors as accessibility, log ability, stream protection, visual
management, and impacts on other resources, utilizing direction provided in the
NEPA document.
Interprets silvicultural prescriptions and marking guidelines to designate harvest
timber.
Determines the acreage by traverse, map, aerial photograph, GIS, or Global
Positioning Systems (GPS).
Develops and carries out timber cruising or surveys to estimate the quantity and
quality of commercial timber by determining sample cruise pattern, selecting
sampling method, collecting and refining data, and summarizing results.
Assists in preparation of timber sale appraisals, mapping, and written reports.
Other duties will include various contract preparation and administration (cone
collection, planting, stand exam, marking etc.) of small sales and stocking
surveys.
Hiring of and supervision of the seasonal work force.
The zone is hopefully nearing the end of a major bark beetle epidemic in its
lodgepole pine, Englemann spruce, and Douglas fir forests and is now in the
process of recovering the value of beetle killed timber and reducing hazardous
fuels in WUI areas. The Clarks Fork, Greybull, and Wapiti Ranger Districts
presently have about 30,000 Ccf NEPA cleared. This represents target for two
years with about 8,000 Ccf prepped and ready to build contracts for
advertisement. The timber, fuels, and wildlife work very well together on all
projects. This forest is progressive with NEPA and does large scale project
analyses.
For more information, please contact Randy Spiering at rspiering@fs.fed.us
(307) 578-5185 or Amy Haas at ahaas@fs.fed.us (307) 578-5237. We look
forward to hearing from you.
If you are interested in this position, please complete the Outreach Response
Form below by December 10, 2013, and send it to Randy Spiering at
rspiering@fs.fed.us.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service is an Equal
Opportunity Employer and Provider.
About The Forest:
The Shoshone National Forest was established in 1891 (the first) as a part of the
Yellowstone Timberland Reserve. The forest in an integral part of the 10 million
acre Greater Yellowstone Area 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 south to 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.
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.
For a complete description of the Forest, including photos, see our WEB PAGE
at http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/shoshone/.
About The Community of 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.
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 9,200. Temperatures average 23
degrees in January and 72 degrees in July. Annual rainfall averages 9.4 inches;
snowfall averages 35 inches yearly. Sunshine brightens the sky more than 300
days a year. Snow does not stay frozen 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, 2
theatres, a senior citizen center, a volunteer fire department, Search and
Rescue, police department, sheriff's department, a new airport with daily
connects to Denver and Salt Lake City as well as county and city offices, etc.
Cody's school district is one of the finest in the Rocky Mountain area. Five
elementary 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 purchase. 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 five museums under one roof--The Whitney Gallery of Western Art, The
Buffalo Bill Museum, The Plains Indian Museum, The Draper Museum of Natural
History, and the Cody Firearms Museum. Cody has a lively fine art community
and several art galleries. Annual cultural events include the Jazz Festival,
Frontier 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
http://www.codychamber.org/
Shoshone National Forest Outreach Response Form
Shoshone National Forest North Zone Cody, Wyoming
Title of Position: Forestry Technician
Pay Plan,Series,Grade: GS-0462-5/6/7
Please e-mail to Randy Spiering at rspiering@fs.fed.us by
December 10, 2013.
Name:
Unit (if applicable):
Current Position, Grade, and Series (if applicable):
Current Status (P/T, F/T, Seasonal, etc.):
E-mail Address:
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