Range Technician

Duties

• Range Technicians work under the supervision and guidance of professional range or natural resource specialists related to monitoring rangeland conditions. Ensures grazing permits and leases are in compliance.
• Inspects grazing allotments, forwards issues to higher graded lead or supervisor. Counts livestock and reports on utilization and grazing impact. Maps out areas of use. Inspects range improvement and makes reports.
• Provide technical support and assistance in range conservation, range management, and range improvement.
• Identify needed range improvements, assists with monitoring agreements and permit projects for conformance to specifications.
• Coordinates pre-inventory mapping (soils, vegetation, etc.) by preliminary delineation in geographic information systems (GIS).
• Initiates and conducts range inventory surveys according to accepted standards and techniques.