Outdoor Recreation Planner

This position is located in Barstow, California. Information about Barstow and the surrounding area is available at Barstow, San Bernardino County, California.

Duties

• Serves as a developmental trainee Outdoor Recreation Planner for one or more specifically assigned outdoor recreation programs.
• Performs a variety of standardized outdoor recreation planning tasks as directed.
• Researches and analyzes a wide array of recreation related data and information on topics such as recreational use, commercial use, visitation, recreation values, environmental impacts, funding, performance, etc.
• Receives training to learn how to perform basic fact finding, collect data from surveys and inventories using standardized sampling techniques, maintain databases, monitor/ inspect recreation facilities and/or concessions contracts.
• Reviews existing recreation program policies, standards, methods, controls, and procedures.
• Assists higher level specialists and planners with designated portions of monitoring and/or inventory studies and surveys.
• Develops and maintain effective working relationships with academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, and interest/user groups concerned with public land management.
• Coordinates with managers, planners, and resource specialists to identify recreation program needs on a local scale and develop long and short-term outdoor recreation plans to address needs.
• Updates and maintains data in an automated systems according to recreation program standards.
• Recommends changes to operational program aspects.
• Participates on interagency and/or interdisciplinary teams and committees to discuss recreation planning, management, policies, and procedures up to the State level.
• Collaborates with others to facilitate partnerships, cooperative agreements, and/or memoranda of understandings with other agencies, institutions, or organizations in order to encourage and facilitate cooperative management strategies.