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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Basic Qualification Requirements Mission Critical and Law Enforcement Careers Fish & Wildlife Biologist/ were in the animal sciences, as shown General Biologist (0401) above, plus appropriate experience or Degree Requirements: Successful Positions that involve professional work additional education. completion of a full 4-year course of study in biology, agriculture, or related natural in an accredited college or university resource management. Wildlife Refuge Management (0485) leading to a bachelor’s or higher degree Positions that require professional in biological science which includes at Degree Requirements: Successful knowledge and competence in the least 12 semester hours in subjects such completion of a full 4-year course of study management, administration, and as general zoology, invertebrate or in an accredited college or university scientific operation of public lands and vertebrate zoology, comparative leading to a bachelor’s or higher degree, waters designated as national wildlife anatomy, physiology, genetics, ecology, which includes a major field of study in refuges. The work involves a variety of cellular biology, parasitology, entomology, biological sciences, agriculture, natural land and water-based activities including: or research courses in such subjects. resource management, chemistry, or water and habitat management; land Where appropriate, excess coursework in related disciplines appropriate to this planning; resources identification and wildlife biology may be used to meet the position; allocation; administration; public zoology requirements. Additionally, relations; supervision; and other activities the position requires nine semester hours OR, involving wildlife resource utilization, in wildlife courses such as mammalogy, Appropriate Combination Of protection, inventory, and evaluation, and ornithology, animal ecology, and wildlife Education And Experience: Courses maintenance of grasslands, marshes and management or research courses in the equivalent to major in the fields soils. field of wildlife biology; and nine described above. semester hours in botany or the related Degree Requirements: Successful plant disciplines; Fishery Biologist (0482) completion of a full 4-year course of study Positions that require professional in an accredited college or university OR, leading to a bachelor’s degree or higher knowledge and competence in the Appropriate Combination Of in zoology, wildlife management or an science of fishery biology to perform Education And Experience: Courses appropriate field of biology which includes work including: developing, conserving, equivalent to a major in biological science at least nine semester hours in zoology; managing, and administering fishery (i.e., at least 30 semester hours), with at six semester hours in such wildlife resources; and evaluating the impact of least 9 semester hours in wildlife courses as mammalogy, ornithology, construction projects and other subjects, 12 semester hours in zoology, animal ecology, or wildlife management; socioeconomic activities that present and 9 semester hours in botany or related and three semester hours in botany, and potential or actual adverse effects on plant science, as shown above, plus three semester hours of conservation fishery resources and their habitat. appropriate experience or additional biology; education. Degree Requirements: Successful OR, completion of a full 4-year course of study Biological Science Tech (0404) in an accredited college or university Appropriate Combination Of Positions that primarily require a leading to a bachelor’s or higher degree Education And Experience: Courses practical knowledge of the methods and with a major in biological science which equivalent to a major in one of the techniques of one or more of the biological includes at least six semester hours in fields described above that included at or agricultural sciences. Biological aquatic subjects such as limnology, least 9 semester hours in zoology; 6 science technicians provide practical ichthyology, fishery biology, aquatic semester hours in such wildlife courses as technical support to production, botany, aquatic fauna, oceanography, fish mammalogy, ornithology, animal ecology, research, operations, or program culture, or related courses in the field of or wildlife management; and 3 semester administration efforts in laboratories, fishery biology; and, 12 semester hours in hours in botany, and 3 semester hours in field, or other settings including animal science in such subjects as general conservation biology, plus appropriate greenhouses, barns, caves, or wildlife zoology, vertebrate zoology, comparative experience or additional education. refuges. anatomy, physiology, entomology, parasitology, ecology, cellular biology, Wildife Biologist (0486) Qualification Requirements may be based and genetics, or research in these fields. Positions that require professional on experience and/or education and Excess coursework in aquatic subjects knowledge and competence in the training. may be used to meet this requirement science of wildlife biology to perform work when appropriate. involving: the conservation, Education: used to qualify must be propagation, management, protection, OR, related to the position in the required and administration of wildlife species; or amount. For example, qualifications at the Appropriate Combination Of the determination, establishment, and trainee level GS-3 and GS-4 are: Education And Experience: Courses application of biological facts, principles, equivalent to a major in biological science methods, techniques, and procedures GS-3 - Successful completion of (i.e., at least 30 semester hours), of which necessary for the conservation and 1-year of study which includes at least a minimum of 6 semester hours were in management of wildlife resources and six semester hours in any combination aquatic subjects and 12 semester hours habitats. of scientific or technical courses such as biology, chemistry, statistics, inspection and compliance duties unlawful commercial exploitation of entomology, animal husbandry, botany, involving the enforcement and U.S. resources ; protecting wildlife from physics, agriculture, or mathematics; administration of laws and regulations environmental hazards and safeguarding OR, governing the importation, exportation, wildlife habitat; enforcing Federal and interstate commerce of wildlife and migratory game bird hunting regulations GS-4 - Successful completion of 2 wildlife products. and working with States to protect other years of study that included 12 game species; and preserving legitimate semester hours in any combination of Qualification requirements may be hunting opportunities. Incumbents also courses listed above of which at least based on experience and/or education. work with international counterparts to six semester hours of courses are For example, qualifications for an entry- combat illegal trafficking in protected directly related to the position to be level position can be either successful species; train other Federal, State, Tribal, filled. completion of a full 4-year course of study and foreign law enforcement officers; use leading to a bachelor’s degree: forensic science to analyze evidence and Specialized Experience: Used to solve wildlife crimes; and conduct qualify must be related to the work of the OR, outreach to increase compliance with position for which application is made. wildlife protection laws. Specialized experience required for some 3 years general experience, one of which positions in this series is normally work demonstrates an ability to analyze Qualification requirements may be based performed in a controlled environment. problems, plan and organize work, and on experience and/or education. For communicate effectively orally and in example, the qualifications for an entry- Park Ranger (0025) writing. level position are: Positions that require knowledge of the principles and techniques of biology, Refuge Law Enforcement (1801) Education: Successful completion of forestry, conservation, environment, Positions that require knowledge and a full 4-year course of study leading to a and natural resource management, in understanding of applicable Federal and bachelor’s degree: order to effectively convey biological State fish and wildlife conservation OR, subject matter to the public. Positions rules and regulations and local laws to with law enforcement duties also require protect wildlife and their habitat on Experience: 3 years general knowledge of applicable Federal, State, refuge lands. A commissioned law experience, one of which demonstrates and local laws and regulation governing enforcement officer is required to enforce an ability to analyze problems to identify the use of refuge lands, facilities, and applicable conservation laws, investigate significant factors, gather pertinent resources to determine violations. violations and assist with the data, and recognize solutions; plan and organize work; and, communicate apprehension and prosecution of Qualification requirements may be based effectively orally and in writing. Specific on experience and/or education. violators. work examples for this position at the Qualification requirements may be entry and developmental level include Education: Course work must be based on experience and/or education. conducting routine investigations for related to the position and in the required For example, qualifications for an entry developmental purposes,