The position will be located within the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Wildlife Research Program. The position will be used to assist the Project Leader and Assistant Project Leader to complete research objectives associated with Elk Nutrition Predation Studies, specifically a wolf-cougar interaction study in the Blue Mountains. The primary objectives of the current research project are to determine prey selection of wolf packs and cougars and document effects of colonizing wolf packs on cougar populations.  

Primary duties include conducting investigations at sites where cougars and wolves may have killed prey. Employee will follow standardized protocols to search potential predation sites and determine species, age, and sex of prey. This position is responsible f