The O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West at the University of Montana is currently recruiting ECOLOGY TECHNICIANS for the 2021 field season. We will be partnering with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to implement their Terrestrial Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) strategy, which is targeted at collecting standardized inventory and long-term vegetation data at multiple scales across the BLM Districts in the Western U.S. The AIM Ecology Technician will work in teams of 2-3 under the leadership of a Crew Lead to collect vegetation and soils data in grasslands and shrublands. Principal duties include: 1) Describing sites following established protocols; 2) Completion of electronic field survey forms; 3) Assisting with the identification