IRVM East
Posted
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03/31/2020
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County
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Dickinson
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Location
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Milford ,Iowa
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Salary
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$40,000 - $43,000 with standard county benefits
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Description
Primary Duties:
It is the primary responsibility of the Dickinson County IRVM program to
perform the following duties on the East side of the county to Highway 71 an
annual basis.
Perform control of
noxious weeds on the designated area of the county.
Decisions as beginning and ending of
spraying/removal, prescribed fire determination and implementation, and
preservation of native plant communities within the county rights of ways will
be performed on an annual work basis.
The Roadside full
time employees will conduct all spraying activities.
This will include both herbicide applications
of noxious weeds, invasive plants, and foliar brush spraying.
The seasonal staff will be responsible for
applying Tordon RTU to cut stumps.
The
use of Tordon will still be over seen by the IRVM. This will document
daily spray records for both brush and noxious weeds.
Records of chemical purchased for the fiscal
year. It will also give a yearly report
to the County Conservation Director and Supervisors of chemical usage and how
much progress was made in the county on vegetation management.
The second
responsibility:
Oo develop a map and prioritize planting on the west half of the
county to spray and plant 3% of the ROWS, including cleanouts.
This will include the management of these
ROWS in the following years including mowing and prescribed fire. This includes
site preparation needed to ensure proper planting conditions, which include
walking the site for hazards.
Oats, annual rye
and winter wheat may be used as cover crops if necessary to hold the soil in
place.
Wil use several
methods of seeding, hydro-seeding, drilling, broadcast seeding, and hand
seeding
The third
responsibility:
Iis removing of brush in the ROWS, these duties would be when the
wind is too high for spraying and unable to do management practices on other
ROWS.
All tree/brush
cutting will be performed and overseen by the IRVM.
If a tree, or trees, is too large to safety
remove them, and then it will be the engineer’s responsibility to remove them
with larger equipment.
Francis Sites/LID
practices duties for the County
The Dickinson County Conservation Board is
responsible for maintenance of plants such as weed management, prairie
management, and live tree removal.
Prairie management will consist of mowing, trimming, spraying, planting
and burning of the areas along with prevention of woody vegetation from growing
with in the easement areas.Conservation
Board representative will report any concerns on structural issues, blocking of
drainage pipes out of the structure or sediment concerns. Conservation Board is
not responsible financially to investigate the solutions or to fix the issues
but may upon approval of the Conservation Board take on the responsibility to
coordinate the efforts and request proper compensation for time, equipment and
materials basis at a minimum.Conservation
Board representative will report to the Board of Supervisors any Easement
issues from surrounding land owners, but it not responsible for enforcing the
easement or easement boundaries from adjoining property owners. Easement encroachments include but are not
limited to subscribe mowing management by those other than conservation board
staff or their contractors, non approved drainage from adjoining land that may
cause erosion or stabilization issues, building structures, hard landscaping
materials, grade modification materials, filling, excavating, access limiting
actions that prohibit management equipment or personnel from managing the
prairie, wetland efficiently and safely.
Any easement encroachment that is not enforced and resolved by the City
of Spirit Lake and/or the Dickinson County Supervisors within 12 months will
allow the Dickinson County Conservation Board to terminate this agreement with
a 30 day written notice.Conservation
Board representative will perform an annual overall inspection of the operation
of the drawdown structures and the emergency overflow spillways for the 100-year storm event. Conservation Board representative will
provide annually a written review of the inspection and the structure’s
condition to the Board of Supervisors.The
Conservation Department will provide an estimated annual budget for anticipated
services at each annual budget preparation. The Board of Supervisors is responsible
financially and will provide for adequate funding or compensation for the
maintenance or repairs of all structures.
Working the tube
hill or any other duties assigned by the Director
Qualifications
A minimum of a bachelor’s degree with major coursework in natural resources, outdoor recreation, education or other applicable field. A strong mix of academics and pertinent work experience is preferred.
To Apply
Submit cover letter and resume with references to Lee Sorenson, Executive Director
Dickinson County Nature Center
22785 Nature Center Road
Okoboji, IA 51360
or via email to Lsorenson@co.dickinson.ia.us