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O*NET detailed work activityPlan natural resources conservation or restoration programs
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AI can lay out options, timelines and checklists to react to. Fitting it to your people, budget and situation is your call.
Part of Develop plans for managing or preserving natural resources, under the O*NET work activity group Thinking Creatively. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 15 AI-assist, 0 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Develop environmental restoration project schedules and budgets.
- Plan soil management or conservation practices, such as crop rotation, reforestation, permanent vegetation, contour plowing, or terracing, to maintain soil or conserve water.
- Create habitat management or restoration plans, such as native tree restoration and weed control.
- Plan environmental restoration projects, using biological databases, environmental strategies, and planning software.
- Tailor conservation plans to landowners' goals, such as livestock support, wildlife, or recreation.
- Participate on work teams to plan, develop, or implement programs or policies for improving environmental habitats, wetlands, or groundwater or soil resources.
- Identify degraded or contaminated soils and develop plans to improve their chemical, biological, or physical characteristics.
- Plan and implement projects for conservation of wildlife habitats and soil and water quality.
- Plan and implement revegetation of disturbed sites.
- Develop environmental management or restoration plans for sites with power transmission lines, natural gas pipelines, fuel refineries, geothermal plants, wind farms, or solar farms.
- Develop water conservation or harvest plans, using weather information systems, irrigation information management systems, or other sources of daily evapotranspiration (ET) data.
- Participate in the development of endangered species breeding programs or species survival plans.
- Plan or supervise land conservation or reclamation programs for industrial development projects.
- Conduct scientific protection, mitigation, or restoration projects to prevent resource damage, maintain the integrity of critical habitats, and minimize the impact of human activities.
- Plan curatorial programs for species collections that include acquisition, distribution, maintenance, or regeneration.