Position Description
Duties:
- Determine the need for environmental restriction within the fire area and provide input as to appropriate suppression actions based on resource concerns
- Develop recommendations for fire suppression rehabilitation of control lines in assigned area
- Monitor rehabilitation efforts
- Provide guidance during the implementation of rehabilitation activities for assigned area
- Coordinate with local specialists (biologists, archaeologists, engineers, resource specialists, recreation specialists, etc) and/or incident supervisor, to identify potential impacts of suppression or management activities
- Identify existing utilities, roads, pipelines, and other uses on the land that may be affected
- Identify potential resources issues that may occur as a result of the incident or incident activities
- Provide input for the development of a fire suppression rehabilitation plan for the agency administrator and the incident commander
- Provide input for the initial completion and/or revision of a published WFDSS decision
- Document potential and actual suppression/fire-related resource impacts and the rationale for protection of priority areas
- Provide input to the development of a long-term plan to provide oversight, documentation and evaluation of rehabilitation efforts
- Anticipate impact on resources in assigned area as the suppression or prescribed fire operation evolves
- Ensure that planned mitigation measures area carried out effectively on the fireline in assigned area
- Provide content input on the development of short and long term natural resource and cultural rehabilitation documents
- May serve as liaison to agency administrator, resource users, and other affected parties
