JOB SUMMARY: This position is a Fish and Wildlife Biologist, GS- 0401-11 working in Fairbanks, Alaska for the R7-Northern Alaska Fish and Wildlife Field Office. MAJOR DUTIES: As a Fish and Wildlife Biologist your duties will include but are not limited to the following: Review proposed development projects, permits and license applications, and other development proposals to determine project impacts on wetlands, fish, wildlife, and habitat resources. Review includes assessing the magnitude of the project, a complete analysis of project plans and engineering drawings, interpretation of aerial photographs, reviewing literature, determining project impacts, and formulating mitigation measures and/or alternatives. Conduct private land habitat restorations including landowner contacts, mapping, surveying, staking, construction monitoring, seeding, and field work, and prepares management plans for restored areas. Negotiate mitigation in accordance with the Service's Mitigation Policy (avoid, minimize, and compensate for unavoidable impacts) of complex project impacts with project sponsors, regulatory agencies, and other State and Federal resource agencies. Develops and recommends reasonable and prudent alternatives, stipulations, and conservation recommendations or measures that result in avoidance and minimization of project impacts on trust fish and wildlife resources. Work with private landowners, Native organizations and villages, and other State and Federal agencies, to form partnerships to strategically restore important fish and wildlife habitat. Using Partners for Fish and Wildlife, Fish Passage, and Coastal funds, the biologist works with cooperating agencies, organizations, governments, and individuals to create, improve, or restore habitats that have been adversely impacted by human activity. Plan, organize, and conduct biological work and/or habitat preservation or restoration studies. IMPORTANT: Click the 'Apply for this job' button to view a complete job description.
