The Southwest Office of the Institute for Applied Ecology (IAE SW) (www.appliedeco.org) will be hiring a botany technician to assist the Carlsbad BLM Field Office Botanist. The technician will primarily work to implement a monitoring plan through rare plant monitoring field data collection for Eriogonum gypsophilum (ERIGYP), or Gypsum Wild Buckwheat. Field studies include impacts monitoring; photopoint monitoring; census and mapping; density monitoring, and demographic trend monitoring. Secondary duties may include surveying or monitoring additional rare plants, native seed collection, vegetation monitoring, literature review, historic records research, technical writing, and data entry. The Botany Technician will be based out of the Carlsbad Field Office to work alongside the Botany an