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A government agency is hiring a 'grizzly bear conflict manager' and is willing to pay up to $103,000 for the right candidate
Stephen Jones 6 hours ago


The US Fish and Wildlife service is hiring a 'grizzly bear conflict manager'.
They could be paid up to $103,000 and will be based in Montana.

Expect wild camping and multiple forms of transport including foot, boat and air.


Fancy escaping the daily commute and dread of a 24 hour news cycle? How about moving to Montana to keep grizzly bears out of trouble?

The US Fish and Wildlife Service — a government agency that manages wildlife habitats — is currently seeking a "grizzly bear conflict manager".

Rather than stepping in to resolve territorial disputes between bears, they'll be working with local wildlife agencies to manage bear populations and mitigate their contact with humans.

The successful candidate will be paid between $79,363 - $103,176 per year, according to the advert, and will have to be located within 100 miles of either Missoula, Bozeman, or Kalispell in Montana, United States.


In return, they should expect a physical job with no two days likely to be the same.

The candidate will split their time between camping in the field and an "adequately lighted, heated and ventilated" office. They'll be expected to use a variety of transport to navigate often harsh terrain, including on foot, snowmobile, boats and small aircraft. They'll also supervise a small team.

"The incumbent may be subject to large numbers of biting insects and may be required to work in close proximity to large animals such as a bear and moose," according to the advert.

They may also need to carry a firearm for protection, it says.

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/638596000


Link to job announcement.

It would be so much easier and less burden on tax payers to just sell hunting licenses. Bears would figure things out pretty quick , and the revenue it would generate.......

Good job for Joe Rogan! He could call the fight ...

For that money?Ill shoot everyone one of them, on foot and with 404

About 5 years ago U.S. Geological Survey advertised a bear safety person in Bozeman working at the college.

I applied for it, as I am a professional safety person and I have a wildlife biology degree.

I didn't get an interview, but they hired someone from within.

Odds are pretty high that whoever gets this job already works there.

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The incumbent may be subject to large numbers of biting insects

I guess in these strange times you have to mention that in a job prospectus.

Grizz

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Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:
About 5 years ago U.S. Geological Survey advertised a bear safety person in Bozeman working at the college.

I applied for it, as I am a professional safety person and I have a wildlife biology degree.

I didn't get an interview, but they hired someone from within.

Odds are pretty high that whoever gets this job already works there.

Remember they are or were talking about the safety of the bears.

Not the safety of the human workers.

It was more of a matter of them using a federal law concerning safety personnel to get another position. They coded it so they could hire another person, they justified it as 20% of the duties were in safety.

In speaking with a friend that works for Geological Survey she claims I dodged a bullet. As the agency is a weird group of people who think they are college professors and have PHD's in bear flatulence.

I just want to do my job without being constantly blown off because I don't have a PHD.

Still don't understand people who go to school for 8 years to make $80,000 a year.

The USFS, always prefers a committee of no experience in such matters, problem solving short of agriculture is not thei big suite..

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Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:
It was more of a matter of them using a federal law concerning safety personnel to get another position. They coded it so they could hire another person, they justified it as 20% of the duties were in safety.

In speaking with a friend that works for Geological Survey she claims I dodged a bullet. As the agency is a weird group of people who think they are college professors and have PHD's in bear flatulence.

I just want to do my job without being constantly blown off because I don't have a PHD.

Still don't understand people who go to school for 8 years to make $80,000 a year.

Most PHD programs from state universities are funded by the University with the student teaching. So, it cost the student nothing once they get accepted. The better programs even fund travel for purposes of researching the Dissertation.

Take me, my Dad died with less than 20K to his name. The median salary for my County is a lot less than 19K. So, 80K always looked good to me. I would not have done it (4 years of college and 3 of law school) if I had, had to take loans.

I remember my 1L year, the loan money did not hit on time. This young, female classmate told me she had 150k in undergrad school loans on top of law school, school loans.

Teachers here in KY never get to stop going to school. All of them speed 3-4 years in undergraduate (My poor brother spent 5), then another 5 years taking classes for Master’s in anything, Rank 1, some admin speciality. It is insane, and stupid. Your pay is incentivized by obtains these class participation programs. It is not based on the quality of your students’ performance or a peer reviewed assessment of your skills.

That job in the past has been the duty of the USFS special Agents, they are LE federal officers just like DEA, US customs, FBI, I ended my last 5 years in DEA as a USFS special agent, mostly for Marihuana eradication, but did some bear protection jobs and whatever else was needed..Had a couple of damn funny experience with those USFS liberal rangers..