Natural Resources Job Board

Required | Qualifications:
• A Ph.D. in Ecology, Wildlife Biology, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Basic programming skills in the R language.
• Strong publication record in reputable, peer-reviewed journals.
• Commitment to teaching and student mentorship.

Preferred | Preferred Qualifications:
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL and relational databases.
• Familiarity with version control systems, specifically GitHub.
• Strong programming skills in R, Python, and/or other common languages used in ecology.

Primary Responsibilities:
Borderlands Research Institute (BRI) at Sul Ross State University (SRSU) is seeking a Visiting Professor/Research Scientist specializing in Big Game Ecology, with an anticipated start in Fall 2025. We seek a scholar to conduct research on long- term pronghorn habitat change across ecoregion scales as part of an ongoing research and restoration project. Once a framework is established with pronghorn, responsibilities will shift to similar work on mule deer, desert bighorn, elk, and aoudad. These projects are based on large, long-term GPS data sets and satellite imagery products. A background in animal movement ecology with strong statistical analysis and R programming skills are preferred, but we are committed to helping the right candidate grow in these areas. The successful applicant will work alongside faculty to explore how these species respond to changing habitat conditions, each other, restoration efforts, and management practices in the Chihuahuan Desert. The candidate will collaborate closely with BRI partners (e.g., private landowners, NGOs, universities, etc.) to support sustainable big game management practices within the Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:
• Integrate within a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with experts in various fields to advance BRl’s mission.
• Supervise field activities and graduate students associated with 5+ big game field projects.
• Help direct an established research program focused on how wildlife responds to large scale management efforts, with a particular emphasis on the Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem.
• Mentor undergraduate and graduate students, guiding their research projects and academic development.
• Secure external funding through grant writing to support research initiatives.
• Publish research findings in high-impact scientific journals, contributing significantly to community and restoration ecology.

About SRSU | Sul Ross State University, located in Alpine, Texas (www.alpinetexas.com), is in the Scenic Davis Mountains of West Texas, is a member of the Texas State University System, is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, and has an enrollment of approximately 2,000 students on campus in Alpine, Texas. At an elevation of 4,480 feet, and on the periphery of the Chihuahuan Desert, Alpine enjoys mild winters and cool summers. Davis Mountains State Park, Fort Davis National Historic Site, Big Bend National Park, and Guadalupe Mountains National Park, are all within one to three hours driving distance from Alpine. More information is available regarding Sul Ross State University and position openings through our website (http://www.sulross.edu).

As a Nuisance Wildlife Biologist with us, you get to do a little bit of everything that we do as a company! Your days can be dynamic and vary from headhunting and generating sales leads, to completing home inspections for wildlife exclusion and pest control work, and completing the services that you sell for pest exclusion and the home repairs that go along with all that! This position has the opportunity for building relationships with the customers and the neighborhoods that we service. Our colleagues serve as intermediaries for human-wildlife conflicts and work with residential and commercial clients. Our dedication to customer service and quality wildlife/pest control makes us highly respected within the communities we serve.

As a Nuisance Wildlife Biologist with us, you get to do a little bit of everything that we do as a company! Your days can be dynamic and vary from headhunting and generating sales leads, to completing home inspections for wildlife exclusion and pest control work, and completing the services that you sell for pest exclusion and the home repairs that go along with all that! This position has the opportunity for building relationships with the customers and the neighborhoods that we service. Our colleagues serve as intermediaries for human-wildlife conflicts and work with residential and commercial clients. Our dedication to customer service and quality wildlife/pest control makes us highly respected within the communities we serve.

As a Nuisance Wildlife Biologist with us, you get to do a little bit of everything that we do as a company! Your days can be dynamic and vary from headhunting and generating sales leads, to completing home inspections for wildlife exclusion and pest control work, and completing the services that you sell for pest exclusion and the home repairs that go along with all that! This position has the opportunity for building relationships with the customers and the neighborhoods that we service. Our colleagues serve as intermediaries for human-wildlife conflicts and work with residential and commercial clients. Our dedication to customer service and quality wildlife/pest control makes us highly respected within the communities we serve.

As a Nuisance Wildlife Biologist with us, you get to do a little bit of everything that we do as a company! Your days can be dynamic and vary from headhunting and generating sales leads, to completing home inspections for wildlife exclusion and pest control work, and completing the services that you sell for pest exclusion and the home repairs that go along with all that! This position has the opportunity for building relationships with the customers and the neighborhoods that we service. Our colleagues serve as intermediaries for human-wildlife conflicts and work with residential and commercial clients. Our dedication to customer service and quality wildlife/pest control makes us highly respected within the communities we serve.

Blessed Bayou Wildlife and Fisheries Consulting
Blessed Bayou is a wildlife and fisheries service company built on hard work and integrity. Blessed Bayou’s headquarters are located about 40 minutes east of Houston, in Mont Belvieu, Texas and Liberty Texas. We serve clients all over the great state of Texas and the southeastern United States. Combined, our team has over 50 years of experience in nearly every aspect of wildlife and freshwater fisheries management.  Our operation includes a fisheries management operation with an emphasis on trophy largemouth production, whitetail deer breeding programs, axis deer breeding program, largemouth bass breeding program, and a fish farm.  We work on everything from a small back yard pond to landowners with 50,000+ acre wildlife ranches.
We are seeking a Fisheries Biologist with a very strong work ethic, positive attitude, integrity, and a willingness to continually learn.  Applicants must be highly motivated and detail oriented.  We offer competitive salaries, paid vacations, 401K, and health insurance.  We are seeking a fisheries biologist that has experience in Trophy Largemouth Bass Management, Electrofishing Surveys, Written Management Plans, Aquatic Vegetation Control, Aeration & Fountains Installations and Maintenance, Water Quality Management, Etc.

Duties Include:
• Conducting electrofishing surveys
• Analyzing data to create comprehensive fisheries management plans.
• Fish stocking
• Aquatic herbicide applications
• Water quality amendments
• Aeration system installations
• Feeder installation and maintenance
• Facilities and equipment maintenance
• Other duties as necessary
Qualifications
• Positive attitude with a strong work ethic and highly integrable
• Experience in freshwater fisheries management.
• Must possess a valid Texas Driver’s License with a clean Driving Record.
• Bachelor’s degree in related field preferred but not necessary.
• Ability to be coachable and willing to be a part of a close-knit team.
• Ability to effectively communicate with coworkers and clients.
• Must be able to work outside.
• Must be able to pick up at least 50 pounds.
• Must be willing to travel overnight as required.
• Ability to operate trucks, boats, atvs, and tow trailers preferred.

Session: Open on a rolling basis

Hours per week: 35 – 40 

Location: Mile 27. 5 Hummingbird Highway, Stann Creek District. Belize, C.A.

Experience required: none

Openings: 2

Internships are held at the T.R.E.E.S Hosting Center, a research and education center in the Maya Mountains of Belize. The center is operated by the Toucan Ridge Ecology and Education Society (T.R.E.E.S), a small grassroots not-for-profit organization whose mandate is to conserve Belize’s natural and cultural heritage through education, conservation, and research. One way in which we meet our mandate is through hosting interns. By training international and local Belizean students in environmental and wildlife management, field research techniques and data collection protocols, knowledge on the biodiversity of Belizean fauna and flora will be gained. This knowledge will then be compiled into peer-reviewed publications, Belizean government reports and regulations, field guides, and other publications that will increase the global visibility of Belizean fauna and flora and aid in their management and ultimately their conservation.

The goal of our internship program is to provide interns with hands-on experience in their field of education, research, or employment under the supervision of professional biologists, while contributing to education and conservation efforts in Belize. These internships are self-directed yet supervised projects in which a short report is to be written and handed to the supervising biologist at the end of the internship session. Many of the post-secondary institutions we work with offer credited internships, but this will need to be discussed with the educational institution where the intern is currently registered. We are happy to provide the required information to the institution so that accreditation is possible. 

Once at the station, you are free to help on projects of need at T.R.E.E.S. Many of the desired qualifications, physical requirements, benefits, and terms below are specific to internships we have posted. Contact us today to describe your skillset and time-frame if you are interested in joining our projects. 

We are looking for people with scientific research and writing skills; be able to navigate through peer-reviewed resources and write a basic literature review. Applicants should have a certain level of identification skills and should be interested in improving their techniques for proper identification and survey methods applicable in the tropics. At the field station we work mainly with mud turtles, birds, bats, and herpetofauna. Persons must be comfortable conducting field work at night, sunrise, and under direct sunlight. Should also have knowledge of inventorying and monitoring techniques of the specified taxa.

Preference is given to those who have previous experience working with the specified taxa/topic from our monitoring projects.

·       Assisting other interns and project managers on other projects in need at T.R.E.E.S, including sustainable agriculture, landscape architecture, gardening.

·       Helping with data entry from different monitoring projects.

·       Proper recording of herp collection data including radio-telemetry movement data.

·       Continuing WCOM Project and Nest Survey projects. This includes the preliminary aspects of the projects such as searching for lekking sites and nests of resident birds along specified areas.

·      Aiding in organic agriculture, horticulture/landscaping, and trail building/maintenance.

·      Help us with grant writing, marketing, hospitality, community development, outreach and education, ESL teaching, and construction.

·      For participants with up-to-date rabies vaccine, they may also aid in nights when bat-mist netting is done. Those without can contribute in other ways such as setting up and tearing down mist-nets and collecting data for the bat monitoring project.

To apply register on the Ecorana website (https://www.ecorana.ca/internship-application-form/) and e-mail your curriculum vitae/resumé, cover letter, and short video to the T.R.E.E.S Internship Coordinator, Scandia Cruz, at scruz@treesociety.org once you have submitted your application form. 

For more information on our organization and facilities please visit our website: www.treesociety.org 

Interns can choose to do a minimum of 2 weeks to a maximum of 6 weeks during this internship program, though 4 weeks is the recommended duration.

This internship has a fee of $334USD/week which includes room and board (meals included Monday-Friday), full access to lab equipment, and training by professional on-site biologists. Food is a combination of self-catering in a communal kitchen with ingredients provided as well as prepared meals, depending on whether we have other groups on site. Lodging at the research center signifies a shared dormitory-style rustic cabins with other same sex interns. This comes with full access to other facilities such as showers, restrooms, and kitchen. The nature of this program allows interns to carry out most of the work independently after the training period is done. Fees do not include airport transfer, flights, travel medical insurance, or $100 USD visitor permit fee if remaining in country for more than 30 days.   

Interns are required to work for 35 hours/week minimum. The typical schedule runs from Monday through Friday and during the daytime or nighttime. Weekends are free time for interns; therefore, you can do as please (travel, hike, relax). No refunds on food and lodging will be available if the intern decides to leave the station. Projects may sometimes run into the weekend; in which case the days will be returned to them during the week. 

The intern supervisor(s) will be responsible for designing a schedule with the intern each week that is reasonable and includes work on the various projects.

 

We look forward to hearing from you!

 

USDA Forest Service Office/Lab and Location: A fellowship opportunity is available with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) within the Pacific Northwest Research Station (PNWRS) located in Seattle, Washington. Remote participation is preferred if the applicant is not local (Seattle Area).

At the heart of the USDA Forest Service's mission is their purpose. Everything they do is intended to help sustain forests and grasslands for present and future generations. Why? Because their stewardship work supports nature in sustaining life. This is the purpose that drives the agency’s mission and motivates their work across the agency. It’s been there from the agency’s very beginning, and it still drives them. To advance the mission and serve their purpose, the USDA Forest Service balances the short and long-term needs of people and nature by: working in collaboration with communities and our partners; providing access to resources and experiences that promote economic, ecological, and social vitality; connecting people to the land and one another; and delivering world-class science, technology and land management.

Research Project: This is an opportunity to participate in wildfire and smoke emissions research conducted by the Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, a collaboration between the University of Washington’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS) and the US Forest Services Pacific Northwest Research Station’s AirFire Program. The participant will interact with a multidisciplinary team of university faculty, research staff, graduate students, and scientists with expertise on fire weather, climatology, air quality, statistics, and computer engineering. Land managers, air quality and health agencies, and the public use our research products, tools, information and expertise to address issues concerning smoke, prescribed and wildland fire and air quality.

This is an exceptional opportunity for the participant to advance in a variety of programming skills while developing websites and User Interfaces (UI) that will be used to support wildfire incident command teams. It will also provide occasions to engage with a wide user community involved in wildland fire and smoke.

Learning Objectives: The participant will have the opportunity to practice and improve skills in:

Mentor: The mentor for this opportunity is Sim Larkin (sim.larkin@usda.gov). If you have questions about the nature of the research, please contact the mentor.

Anticipated Appointment Start Date: June 2025.  Start date is flexible and will depend on a variety of factors.

Appointment Length: The appointment will initially be for one year but may be extended upon recommendation of USDA Forest Service and is contingent on the availability of funds.

Level of Participation: The appointment is full time.

Participant Stipend: The participant will receive a monthly stipend commensurate with educational level and experience. The annual stipend range is $85k to $115k, depending on experience, with $4,500 for travel and supplies. 

Citizenship Requirements: This opportunity is available to U.S. citizens and Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR) only.

ORISE Information: This program, administered by ORAU through its contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to manage the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), was established through an interagency agreement between DOE and USDA Forest Service. Participants do not become employees of USDA, USDA Forest Service, DOE or the program administrator, and there are no employment-related benefits. Proof of health insurance is required for participation in this program. Health insurance can be obtained through ORISE.

Questions: Please visit our Program Website. After reading, if you have additional questions about the application process please email ORISE.USFS.PNWRS@orau.org and include the reference code for this opportunity.

The qualified candidate should have received a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree in one of the relevant fields. Degree must have been received within the past five years.

 

Ranch Worker – Skilled in Plumbing, Electrical, and Equipment Operations (Central Texas) 

We are seeking a dependable, experienced Ranch Worker to assist with the daily operations of a private ranch in Central Texas. The ideal candidate will have strong skills in plumbing repair, basic electrical work, tractor operation, and general ranch maintenance. 

 

Responsibilities: