NPS, DOI Recruiting For BAER Teams

The National Park Service and the Department of the Interior are recruiting for natural and cultural resource specialists to serve on post-wildfire burned area emergency response (BAER) teams. These teams assist parks and other federal units to conduct post-wildfire assessments and develop BAER plans to address complex post wildfire situations that pose immediate and significant threats to human life, property, and critical natural and cultural resources. These threats may be from flash floods, debris flows, and erosion.

The BAER teams have needs for team leaders, hydrologists, soil scientists, GIS specialists, foresters, wildlife biologists, dultural resource professionals, botanists, exotic plant management specialists, and document specialists. Vacant positions are open to all interested, permanent full time employees.

For more about the BAER program, please go to the DOI BAER website: http://www.fws.gov/fire/ifcc/esr/home.htm

APPLICATION PROCESS

NPS Local and Regional Ad Hoc Teams

Nominations are made in the form of an email with a cc: to the employee’s supervisor and forwarded to Richard Schwab (richard_schwab@nps.gov), NPS national BAER coordinator, no later than February 13th. Nomination emails should specify the vacancy of interest and must briefly address the nominee’s professional, technical, and any BAER related qualifications for the position. Be sure to include all contact information for the nominee (name, business address, phones-work-cell-fax-home, and email address) by completing the attached spreadsheet: NPS BAER Team Nominations 2009

National Interagency BAER Team
For the national interagency BAER team, the same procedures apply except that nominations must be made in the form of a memorandum from the employee’s supervisor. Also include Erv Gasser, national BAER team leader, in the email reply (erv_gasser@nps.gov). For further information on applying to these teams, please read the following attachments: NPS BAER Team Nominations Cover Letter 2009 and National BAER Team Vacancy Announcement 2009