Andrew Wade
Atlanta,MI
Summary
Experienced and dependable wildlife assistant with a proven track record of efficiently completing tasks in various settings. Skilled in manual labor, equipment operation, and maintaining a clean and organized work area related to natural resource. Safety-conscious with a strong work ethic and the ability to adapt to different environments.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Wildlife Assistant
Michigan Department Of Natural Resources
Grayling, Michigan
05.2024 - Current
- Manage wildlife openings.
- Use of large tractors for discing, cultipacking and seeding openings (direct drilling and broadcast spreading (buckwheat, clover, and rye)
- Mow openings to minimize encroachment of woody species and maintain a wildlife opening.
- Goose banding operations (rounding up, operating boats, netting, and installing leg bands)
- Recording data for goose banding (band number, ageing/sexing)
- Duck Banding operations (building habitat specific traps, water swim in traps, land confusion traps)
- Added to duck banding include: baiting traps, studying activity from trail cameras, setting traps, aging and sexing specific waterfowl, recording data (band number, location)
- Implementing wildlife opening plans: specific acres to maximize edge habitat and hunting availability for ADA hunters, selecting the best seed to increase soil nutrients in the ground.
Wildlife Assistant
Michigan Department Of Natural Resources
Roscommon, MI
05.2023 - 08.2023
- Conducted avian surveys on woodcock (audio) and Kirkland's Warbler (grid survey).
- Collected bear hair for the 5-year bear hair snare surveys. Participated in aerial black bear surveys, via radio telemetry.
- Operated watercraft machines (PWC and Jon boats) to round up geese for bird banding.
- Helped age and sex geese, as well as leg banding over the Roscommon and local areas.
- Worked with other Wildlife Technicians on mallard trapping and leg banding, as well as placing transmitters on hen mallards for tracking purposes.
- Participated in educating elementary students about the furbearers in Michigan during a field day.
- Operated large closed-cab tractors with multiple brush hogs to maintain growth in wildlife openings.
- Maintained the largest implements by checking fluid levels, greasing every 8 hours, and visual inspections to make sure all moving parts were functional.
- Operated a bulldozer to maintain hunter access trails by leveling out dirt and sand.
- Operated and maintained chainsaw's, pole-saws, and string trimmers to trim hunter access trails, remove fallen trees, and keep gates accessibly on WMA (sharpened chains, clean air filters, replace blades, mix fuel correctly)
Natural Resource Technician
Ohio Department Of Natural Resources
Buckeye Lake, OH
05.2020 - 08.2022
- Controlled pesticide and herbicide application.
- Demonstrated self-reliance by meeting and exceeding workflow needs.
- Maintain State grounds, by picking up trash, custodial tasks (sanitizing, cleaning and re supplying restroom facilities)
- Operation of mowers, string trimmers, large tractors, and implements.
- Maintain the beaches by raking them and cleaning debris.
- Maintenance on mowers, tractors, vehicles, small engines, and UTVs.
- Operation in chainsaws and tree trimming.
- Operating work boats for moving buoy markers, pulling logs out of the water.
- Operating UTVs for transportation, trash cleanup, blowing sidewalks off, and mulching jobs.
- Operation of power and hand tools.
- Electrical repairs on mowing equipment, light fixtures, and outlets.
- Plumbing for restroom sinks, toilets, and minor busted pipes.
- Carpentry work, refacing docks, building kiosk signs, shelter houses, and framing up walls.
- Goose surveying.
Non-career Wildlife Technician
Michigan Department Of Natural Resources
11.2021 - 12.2021
- This was a month-long deer-check station position
- Responsibilities of collecting information from hunters, including location of harvest (town, range, section) upon them bringing a harvest deer in
- Then enter information into a mobile database
- Removed heads from white-tailed deer, then tag them for bovine TB testing
- Operated hand tools: knives, sharper's, jaw bars, and powered reciprocating saws.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Wildlife and Fisheries Resources
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV08.2024
Associate - Natural Resource Law Enforcement
Hocking Technical College
05.2021
Skills
- Analytical Thinking
- Time management abilities
- Self Motivation
- Excellent Communication
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- GPS Navigation
- Problem-Solving
Certification
- CPR, AED, and Basic First Aid
- ATV Safety Certification
- NWCG Type 2 Wildland Firefighter Certification (S-130, S-190, and L-180)
Timeline
Wildlife Assistant
Michigan Department Of Natural Resources
05.2024 - Current
Wildlife Assistant
Michigan Department Of Natural Resources
05.2023 - 08.2023
Non-career Wildlife Technician
Michigan Department Of Natural Resources
11.2021 - 12.2021
Natural Resource Technician
Ohio Department Of Natural Resources
05.2020 - 08.2022
Bachelor of Science - Wildlife and Fisheries Resources
West Virginia University
Associate - Natural Resource Law Enforcement
Hocking Technical College
- CPR, AED, and Basic First Aid
- ATV Safety Certification
- NWCG Type 2 Wildland Firefighter Certification (S-130, S-190, and L-180)
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