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Prescribed Fire and Fuel Specialist, Central Oregon (COFMS)
Central Oregon Fire Management Service
Deschutes & Ochoco National Forests and Prineville BLM
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*Central Oregon** Fire Management Service*
OUTREACH NOTICE
Prescribed Fire & Fuels Specialist, ADFMO Fuels
GS-462-08/09
/OCR # PERM-OCR-462-8/9-FUEL(G&DP)/
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The Deschutes National Forest is advertising a permanent full-time
GS-462-08/09 ADFMO position. This position works for Central Oregon Fire
Management Service (COFMS), an interagency fire management organization
serving the Deschutes National Forest, Ochoco National Forest, Crooked
River National Grassland, and Prineville District Bureau of Land
Management. The position is located on the Deschutes National Forest’s
Newberry Division in Crescent, Oregon.*/ /*
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*This position is being advertised using the ‘open continuous roster’
process. To be considered, you must apply to this announcement on
www.usajobs.gov <http://www.usajobs.gov/> and you must list Crescent,
Oregon as a preferred location. The referral list for this position will
be requested on September 25th, 2009. Applications will be submitted
using the AVUE automated system at _www.avuecentral.com._ All
application materials must be complete and submitted by this date. *
*_ABOUT THE POSITION: _*
This position is one of three Fuels Planning/Implementation ADFMO’s
supervised by the Newberry Division Fire Management Officer. The
Newberry Division covers the geographic area of the Deschutes National
Forest’s Bend Ft. Rock and Crescent Ranger Districts and the BLM lands
in the La Pine basin, approximately 1 million acres.
The ADFMO for the Newberry Division
- May serve as Acting Division Fire Management Officer in the absence of
the Division FMO.
- Assists the Division FMO in developing comprehensive plans for the
protection of valuable resources.
- Participates on and occasionally leads, Interdisciplinary Planning
Teams at the District level as Fuels Specialist.
- Directs and coordinates the unit’s fuels planning and implementation
operations.
- Directs and plans prescribed fire activities including burn plan
preparation and implementation of prescribed fire and fuels program.
- Assists, as needed, directing safe initial attack and extended attack
suppression actions, including determining incident needs, dispatch and
deployment of personnel and equipment.
- Regularly serves as course coordinator/instructor in fuels/fire
management-related courses.
This is a secondary firefighter position*. *The selected applicant will
be required to take and pass the Work Capacity Fitness Test at the
Moderate level and to maintain that qualification. The selected
individual will also be required to meet the Interagency Fire Program
Management (IFPM) qualifications for ADFMO Fuels which includes RXB2 and
CRWB or ENGB, or other level as indicated by the current unit complexity
analysis (high), and IFPM implementation status. Note: future
opportunities to convert this position to a professional series may be
explored as the USFS more clearly defines alternatives to the 401 series.
*_ABOUT Central Oregon Fire Management Service: _*
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The Central Oregon Fire Management Service (COFMS) area includes the
Deschutes National Forest
<http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/index.shtml>, the Ochoco National
Forest <http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/index.shtml>, and the
Prineville District BLM <http://www.or.blm.gov/Prineville/>. These three
units are managed cooperatively under combined leadership, with an
Interagency Fire Management Officer, two Deputy Fire Management
Officers, and other sub-staff functions working for a Board of Directors
including Forest Service District Rangers and BLM Field Managers from
both agencies. These units work to manage fire, fuels and aviation
programs on the public lands throughout Central Oregon.
Public lands in Central Oregon are widely scattered. The Prineville BLM
district boundary encompasses approximately 12.7 million acres between
the Columbia River to the north, south of the town of Crescent in
Klamath County to the south, the Cascade crest on the west, and near the
town of John Day at the eastern boundary. Within that broad area, the
two forests and BLM holdings total over 4 million acres.
COFMS is divided into four divisions, each managed by a Fire Management
Officer. Dispatching is managed by the Central Oregon Interagency
Dispatch <http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/fire/index.htm> Center,
which also includes functions for the Oregon Department of Forestry’s
Prineville Unit. COFMS fire resources include engine crews, hand crews,
water tenders, dozers, prevention units, lookouts, and an Interagency
Rappel program.
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*_ABOUT THE AREA:_*
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Text Box: THE DESCHUTES NATIONAL FOREST The Deschutes National Forest
encompasses 1.6 million acres ranging from the Cascade Mountains to the
high desert. The Forest is one of 19 national forests in the Pacific
Northwest Region. The Forest lands fall into Deschutes, Jefferson,
Klamath and Lake Counties and has four wilderness areas as well as the
Newberry National Volcanic Monument. The Forest, with its Supervisor's
Office in Bend, is composed of the Sisters, Crescent and Bend/Ft. Rock
Ranger Districts, and the Bend Seed Extractory. The Deschutes also
administers the Redmond Air Center, located two miles east of Redmond,
Oregon. The Redmond Air Center serves as the base for smokejumpers, an
Interagency Hotshot Crew, an air tanker base, the Regional Air Group and
the Regional Fire Cache. The Regional fire training center is also at
Redmond. Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center is located at the
airport in Prineville, Oregon. The Deschutes has 94 family campgrounds,
six group campgrounds, and other recreation sites. In addition, there
are 13 resorts, marinas and stores, and 283 summer homes under special
use permit. Attractions including 215 lakes and reservoirs, 617 miles of
streams provide fishing and boating, winter sports, and thousands of
acres of magnificent scenery. Current recreation use places the
Deschutes among the top five forests in the nation as a place to visit.
Mt. Bachelor ski area is located on the National Forest 20 miles west of
Bend. The ski area serves nearly a million people who recreate here each
winter. Facilities are provided for both downhill and cross country
skiing. Throughout the Deschutes there are number of trails marked for
snowmobiling and cross country skiing.
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*_ABOUT THE DUTY STATION:_*
Crescent Ranger District is located 50 miles south of Bend Oregon, and
90 miles north of Klamath Falls Oregon, at the crossroads of Highway 97
and Highway 58 in Klamath County. Crescent is the southern most District
of the Deschutes National Forest, comprised of approximately 315,000
acres. A small portion of this acreage is located in the Diamond Peak
Wilderness and the Oregon Cascade Recreation Area.
The elevation of the District ranges from 4,300 to about 8,740 feet at
the mountain tops. The weather varies during the summer from warm days
to cool nights and often has below freezing temperatures during the
winter. The landscape is dominated by lodge pole pine and ponderosa pine
and at higher elevations by mixed conifer to sub-alpine-alpine
vegetation. Dominant shrubs are bitterbrush in the lower elevations and
snowbrush at the higher elevations.
The District offers a variety of recreation opportunities. There are 130
lakes on the District. The larger lakes are Odell, Crescent, Summit, and
Davis. There are also several streams which provide varied fishing
opportunities. Other recreation opportunities include hiking, camping,
hunting, scenic viewing, snowmobiling and cross-country skiing.
More detailed information about Central Oregon may be obtained from the
following websites:
_www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon_
_www.redmondcofc.com <http://www.redmondcofc.com/>_
_www.bendchamber.org <http://www.bendchamber.org/>_
http://www.ohwy.com/or/p/prinevil.htm
http://www.oregon.com/towns/madras
http://www.edforco.org <http://www.edforco.org/>
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