Botanist
Institute for Applied Ecology
IAE Southwest seeks to hire a Botany Program Lead to support the
objectives of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Plant Conservation and Restoration
Program (PCRP) program at the Carlsbad Field Office in Carlsbad New Mexico. The PCRP
conserves, maintains, and restores native plant communities through its land use planning and
land management activities. The BLM Carlsbad Field Office administers over 2 million acres
within the northern reaches of the Chihuahuan Desert and along the western edge of the Permian
Basin – one of the oldest oil fields in the nation. The Carlsbad Botanist coordinates all botany
projects within the field office, including support for seed collection and ecological monitoring
programs, managing Special Status Plant Species dataset, consulting on National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) projects, overseeing botanical data collection protocols, implement
preclusion and recovery strategies for Federally Threatened or Endangered plant species, and
more. The Botanist provides native plant technical support to other programs and implements
vegetation management and restoration projects to help BLM and the Department of Interior
(DOI) improve conservation stewardship and wildlife species habitat and meet DOI climate
goals.