The University of Montana (UM) O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West (OCRMW) is partnering with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to implement their Terrestrial Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) strategy. This protocol is targeted at collecting standardized inventory and long-term vegetation and soils data at multiple scales across BLM Districts in the Western U.S. We are currently recruiting Technicians with experience in botany, ecology, and soil science for data collection in Idaho and Montana from April/May through August/September (exact dates vary by project). The Technician will work with a Crew Lead to collect vegetation and soils data in desert, sagebrush-steppe, and grassland ecosystems. Crews of 2-3 people work eight-day hitches: 10-hours/day, from Tuesday-Tuesday, with a six-day break between hitches. All positions are field-based and require working and camping in isolated regions. We ask seasonal staff to commit...
