Description of Duties and Learning Objectives The successful candidates will join SFPUC biologists in a variety of natural resource management projects and will learn how to:
• Survey for rare and listed plants and animals and monitor projects to ensure their protection.
• Monitor vegetation communities and planting survivorship.
• Monitor threatened and endangered wildlife such as California red-legged frogs, Mission blue and San Bruno elfin butterflies
• Remove invasive species using hand tools, power tools, herbicide, and other methods.
• Revegetate disturbed landscapes with native plants.
• Map key habitat features using ESRI Field Maps; analyze and display mapped features using GIS technology.
• Evaluate progress toward mitigation goals; collect, enter, and manage ecological data.
• Prepare reports and correspondence relating to conservation projects.
• Maintain tools and equipment and other miscellaneous duties.