Funds under this award are to be used to conduct and support habitat restoration, visitor services, and management projects at the tualatin river national wildlife refuge complex (the complex) through…

Funds under this award are to be used to conduct and support habitat restoration, visitor services, and management projects at the tualatin river national wildlife refuge complex (the complex) through the hiring of a year-round or seasonal habitat and biological coordinator position(s) focused on volunteer coordination and biological program assistance. This position(s) would: 1) provide support to the complexs biological program by assisting with a variety of tasks, with an emphasis on work associated with the chicken creek, rock creek, olsen, 1P-NW at the main unit, and wapato lake restoration projects (e.g., native plant installations, invasive plant species control, biological inventory and monitoring, data entry, and volunteer coordination). 2) provide support to the visitor services program by coordinating community science projects to engage the public in conservation work (e.g., second saturday work parties and amphibian EGG mass surveys), as well as assisting with environmental education, interpretive opportunities, and social media outreach in the communities surrounding the refuges. 3) provide daily field supervision for volunteers and seasonal field staff and or crews, assisting with invasive plant species control projects, biological inventory and monitoring, native plant installation projects, and visitor services programming. 4). Coordinating with various conservation partners on restoration projects on and off refuge.