The Sierra Institute for Community and Environment (Sierra Institute), in cooperation with Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (SEKI), is recruiting a Nursery Manager to support a wide range of revegetation needs, including post-fire conifer planting, roadside disturbance and construction mitigation, meadow restoration, and revegetation in support of invasive plant management.
The incumbent will work with National Park Service (NPS) staff to implement measures to restore vegetation community form and function following catastrophic wildfires, as well as supporting other projects in need of revegetation services. Work involves managing the SEKI nursery at Ash Mountain, near Three Rivers, CA, and will involve propagating a wide range of native plants, including giant sequoias; overseeing a variably sized workforce of nursery assistants and volunteers, as well as coordinating and im plementing revegetation plantings in collaboration with other NPS and partner staff. Work schedule will generally be 8 -hour days Monday through Friday in a work environment of nursery, office, and field.