Career Information For A Wildlife Biologist
Do you enjoy working outdoors.
Do you want to be part of a team that makes a difference.
Do you have a desire to care for and manage our Nation's precious wildlife resources and their habitats.
If so, a career as a wildlife biologist in the Forest Service may be just what you're looking for!
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Operating on The Job
Your main responsibility as a Forest Service wildlife biologist will be wildlife habitat--managing, protecting, rehabilitating, and enhancing it.
Working on a team with recreation, range, minerals, rare plants, engineering, and timber management specialists to plan national forest management is an exciting and important part of the position.
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The Work Environment
Forest Service biologists work in all types of environments - offices and mountains, deserts and wetlands, forests and prairies--we have it all.
As a wildlife biologist, you will work alongside other resource professionals managing the 191 million acres of national forests and grasslands.
These lands provide important habitat to more than 3000 spec.
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What is conservation biology?
Conservation biology is concerned with phenomena that affect the maintenance, loss, and restoration of biodiversity and the science of sustaining evolutionary processes that engender genetic, population, species, and ecosystem diversity.
Scottish zoologist and conservationist
David Whyte Macdonald CBE FRSE is a Scottish zoologist and conservationist.
He is the Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) at the University of Oxford, which he founded in 1986.
He holds a Senior Research Fellowship at Lady Margaret Hall with the Title of Distinction of Professor of Wildlife Conservation.
He has been an active wildlife conservationist since graduating from Oxford.
