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Job Description
Research or study range land management practices to provide sustained production of forage, livestock, and wildlife.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-1031.02
Also Known As…
- Wildlife Manager
- Resource Manager
- Rangeland Management Specialist
- Range Technician
- Natural Resource Specialist
- Natural Resource Manager
- Land Management Supervisor
- Habitat Management Coordinator
- Grassland Conservationist
- Conservationist
- Wildlife Refuge Specialist
- Wildlife Refuge Manager
- Wildlife Conservationist
- Uplands Division Director
- Territory Manager
- Refuge Manager
- Real Estate Management Specialist
- Range Scientist
- Range Ecologist
- Range Conservationist
- Plant Ecologist
- Lands Resource Manager
- Habitat Biologist
- Forestry and Wildlife Manager
- Division Order Technician
- Department of Natural Resources Officer (DNR Officer)
- Aquatic Habitat Biologist
Tasks for “Range Managers”
- Plan and direct construction and maintenance of range improvements such as fencing, corrals, stock-watering reservoirs and soil-erosion control structures.
- Manage private livestock operations.
- Study forage plants and their growth requirements to determine varieties best suited to particular range.
- Measure and assess vegetation resources for biological assessment companies, environmental impact statements, and rangeland monitoring programs.
- Study rangeland management practices and research range problems to provide sustained production of forage, livestock, and wildlife.
- Plan and implement revegetation of disturbed sites.
- Develop technical standards and specifications used to manage, protect and improve the natural resources of range lands and related grazing lands.
- Manage forage resources through fire, herbicide use, or revegetation to maintain a sustainable yield from the land.
- Maintain soil stability and vegetation for non-grazing uses, such as wildlife habitats and outdoor recreation.
- Study grazing patterns to determine number and kind of livestock that can be most profitably grazed and to determine the best grazing seasons.
- Regulate grazing, and help ranchers plan and organize grazing systems in order to manage, improve and protect rangelands and maximize their use.
- Tailor conservation plans to landowners' goals, such as livestock support, wildlife, or recreation.
- Offer advice to rangeland users on water management, forage production methods, and control of brush.
- Develop new and improved instruments and techniques for activities such as range reseeding.
- Develop methods for protecting range from fire and rodent damage and for controlling poisonous plants.
- Mediate agreements among rangeland users and preservationists as to appropriate land use and management.
Related Technology & Tools
- Laser plumb bobs
- Personal computers
- Desktop computers
- Double-ring infiltrometers
- Measuring tapes
- Soil sampling scoops
- Tablet computers
- Robel poles
- Gram scales
- Single-ring infiltrometers
- Portable dataloggers
- Plant canopy analyzers
- Quadrat frames
- Compact digital cameras
- Strain gauges
- Hand sieves
- Impact penetrometers
- Laptop computers
- Stereoscopes
- Global positioning system GPS devices
- FARSITE
- RSAC Riparian Mapping Tool
- Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Fuel Characteristic Classification System FCCS
- ESSA Technologies Path Landscape Model
- Satellite image databases
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Parbat
- Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment AGWA
- Adobe Systems Adobe Photoshop
- Microsoft Access
- Data mining software
- CorridorDesigner
- National Resources Conservation Service Web Soil Survey WSS
- National Resources Conservation Service Grazing Spatial Analysis Tool
- Python
- Viper Tools
- FEAT/Firemon integrated FFI
- GNU Image Manipulation Program GIMP
- USDA ARS Database for Inventory, Monitoring and Assessment DIMA
- Microsoft Word
- ESSA TechnologiesTool for Exploratory Landscape Scenario Analyses TELSA
- Microsoft Excel
- National Resources Conservation Service Ecological Site Information System ESIS
- The Nature Conservancy Weed Information Management System WIMS
- R
- United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Livestock and Environment Toolbox LEAD
- Fire Spread Probability FSPro
- SAS
- Database for Inventory, Monitoring and Assessment DIMA
- Geographic resources analysis support system GRASS
- UNIX
- Oracle Java
- Aquatic Plant Information Retrieval System APIRS
- Linux
- USDA NRCS Soil Data Viewer
- USDA Comet
- USDA NRCS VegSpec
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- FlamMap
- BehavePlus
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
- University of Arizona RangeView
- Clark Labs IDRISI Selva
- USDA SamplePoint