An employee in this class assists professional conservation managers and biologists in a particular field of conservation and natural resource management. These employees also perform difficult work assignments independently and may be responsible for supervising lower level employees. Employees in this class may be responsible for certain operations in a specific type of activity but usually work under the general direction of a supervisor who assigns and inspects work and progress and upon completion. The employee has considerable latitude for use of independent judgement and routine operations or in emergency situations. Difficult technical decisions are the responsibility of the professional manager.
Work is reviewed through field inspections, review of records, reports and work accomplishment.
Fisheries Aide Assists in a variety of management activities and performs technical field work in fish and lake investigations, studies and surveys, artificial or natural fish propagation and culture, fish population control, fish rescue, lake rehabilitation, fish habitat improvement, rough fish removal, fish population assessment, commercial rough fish operations, census of sport fishing harvest and other activities. Assists in or schedules construction, maintenance and repair of buildings, facilities used in hatching, raising, feeding, treating for diseases, harvesting, removing, handling, transporting, displaying and stocking of fish. Seines, traps, identifies sexes, sorts, grades, counts, weighs, measures, loads and transports numerous species of cold and warm water game fish and rough fish and stock game fish. Nets, traps, seines and tags fish, takes slow water, oxygen, plankton, equatic insect and plant samples in rearing ponds, natural spawning areas, lakes, rivers and streams. Game Aide Assists in a variety of management activities and performs technical field work in game and wildlife habitat investigations, studies and surveys, artificial or natural game propagation and rearing wildlife habitat improvement, population and wild animal damage control, game population census, census of hunting and trapping harvest and other activities.