JOB SUMMARY: This position is located in Olympic National Park, in the Superintendent Division. MAJOR DUTIES: In this position you will perform the following duties: Serve as park's subject matter expert on wilderness law and policy, including the 1964 Wilderness Act, National Trails System Act and others. Advise the park leadership on wilderness management planning and decisions. Wilderness management considerations may include, but are not limited to, wilderness character monitoring and preservation, public access and recreational use, commercial activities, natural and prescribed fire and fuels management, vegetation, wildlife, invasive species, fisheries, habitat restoration, natural quiet and scenic viewscapes, aircraft overflight, air and water quality, caves, mines, soils, geology, hydrology, historic structures, administrative and recreational infrastructure, scientific research or monitoring sensors, archeology, and other natural, physical, cultural and social resources. Develop, write, and review Minimum Requirements Analyses (MRAs) and appropriate National Environmental Policy Act documents in coordination with subject matter experts, project leaders, and other internal and external stakeholders. Analyze project proposals to identify potential impacts to natural and cultural resources and visitor use and experience, especially wilderness resources and experiences, from Wilderness Act Section 4(c) or other activities, to determine the postential necessity and minimum required action to project primary objectives while minimizing other wilderness impacts. Evaluate internal or external scientific research proposals utilizing MRA framework. Write and/or provide feedback on various documents related to National Environmental Policy Act and Wilderness Act planning projects and studies, project reports, resource analyses, scientific research proposals, management alternatives, impact analyses, and briefing statements. Communicate orally and represent wilderness on interdisciplinary teams and committees. Effectively collaborate across the agency and with other federal or state land management agencies and partners, such as traditionally associated tribes, specific user groups or other advocacy organizations and the public sometime on controversial topics. Require day-hiking, overnight backpacking and/or stock-based trips in wilderness to complete site visits of potential, ongoing or past project locations, evaluate resource conditions and impacts, conduct wilderness character monitoring and identify visitor use trends. Winter backcountry ski or snowshoe overnight camping trips may be done to complete snow surveys as part of a team. IMPORTANT: Click the 'Apply for this job' button to view a complete job description.
