The Forest Ecologist is responsible for providing leadership and scientific support to agency partners and diverse stakeholders to help guide agency and community investments in forest restoration strategies.
The Forest Ecologist:
• Synthesizes research to inform conservation priorities, restoration treatments, and environmental risk and benefits
• Provides leadership to collaborative stakeholder working groups;
• Participates on interdisciplinary teams to plan forest restoration and management
• Communicates technical information to diverse stakeholder groups to influence conservation practice.
• Independently evaluates, selects, and applies scientific methods to collect independent research to inform conservation priorities, develop restoration prescriptions, and evaluate results.
• Develops proposals, conducts scientific surveys and research, records data, writes project reports and
• Delivers conservation tools, biodiversity data, field services and training to Conservancy staff and its partners
• Administers and coordinates fieldwork and logistical support for research, project development and monitoring
• Helps develop adaptive management plans, develops conceptual models, and identifies and designs ecosystem conservation strategies
The Forest Ecologist works closely with leadership and staff of the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forests and the Prineville Bureau of Land Management, as well as the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Department, and the Oregon Department of Forestry and community, industry and conservation stakeholders as part of interdisciplinary agency teams and collaborative stakeholder working groups. The Forest Ecologist also helps coordinate and manage the Forest Team’s engagement and leadership of the Northwest Fire Learning Network. The Forest Ecologist is supervised by the Oregon Forest Program Director and works as part of The Nature Conservancy’s Oregon Forest Team and with colleagues across the Conservancy to accelerate scientifically-based forest restoration and management practices to conserve biodiversity and provide ecosystem service benefits.
The Forest Ecologist position is located in Bend, Oregon
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