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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: TeacherMan on July 04, 2024, 09:02:03 PM

Title: IDFW is the best summer job ever 😂
Post by: TeacherMan on July 04, 2024, 09:02:03 PM: I’ve been working with IDFW this summer as a Wildlife Tech and the majority of my job has been putting in and managing food plots in the WMA areas. Part of this process is controlling the ground squirrel infestation we have in north Idaho. 10/22 is a fun setup. This is about 2 hours of management 😂
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Post by: Dan-o on July 04, 2024, 09:45:24 PM: I am officially jealous.

That looks like way more fun than my spreadsheets and charts.
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Post by: WapitiTalk1 on July 04, 2024, 09:58:03 PM: Quote from: Dan-o on July 04, 2024, 09:45:24 PM
I am officially jealous.

That looks like way more fun than my spreadsheets and charts.

I totally concur 8)
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Post by: 92xj on July 04, 2024, 10:12:46 PM: What are you planting as well as the dates the seed is hitting the ground?
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Post by: TeacherMan on July 05, 2024, 11:41:18 AM: Quote from: 92xj on July 04, 2024, 10:12:46 PM
What are you planting as well as the dates the seed is hitting the ground?

Planting oats mostly. It’s very resistant to the heat in our area. There are also quite a few round up resident alfalfa plots I keep sprayed. Besides that we manage some of the native plants for local wildlife. This yr we ended up with an invasive field of common bugloss. But after watching it we figured out that doves LOVE it. We are leaving it until Fall now. Will spray and till it under mid September.

I do other stuff besides Ag as well. Telemetry, electroshocking/tagging, bird banding, aquatic insect heavy metal studies, and honestly a ton more. It’s a very fun position.
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Post by: fishngamereaper on July 05, 2024, 02:01:23 PM: I check the job openings weekly just to see what kind of cool stuff they pay people to do..
Self sufficient up to a week, ability to hike rough terrain and knowledge of trail cams was the best one yet...
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Post by: phildobaggins on July 05, 2024, 02:58:19 PM: That is amazing! If I was able to have two jobs at once I'd do that! 8)
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Post by: wadu1 on July 05, 2024, 06:28:28 PM: Looks like a fun summer job. A friend son works for (I think) USFWS doing predator control on military bases all over even the big sand box. Gets paid to have fun.
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Post by: Feathernfurr on July 05, 2024, 07:19:15 PM: I’ve wrangled Atlantic sturgeon, built waterfowl impoundments, deer and waterfowl surveys, trapped and tracked bats living in the talus rocks faces full of timber rattlesnakes. The wildlife field can be a blast. We’re not getting wealthy anytime soon though😂

I’ve turned down 3 positions I’ll always regret. One was being a guide for veterans removing elk from Theodore Roosevelt national park, one running a feed lot for elk in Jackson, and one as a trout biologist in Jackson.
Title: Re: IDFW is the best summer job ever 😂
Post by: TeacherMan on July 05, 2024, 07:21:47 PM: Quote from: Feathernfurr on July 05, 2024, 07:19:15 PM
I’ve wrangled Atlantic sturgeon, built waterfowl impoundments, deer and waterfowl surveys, trapped and tracked bats living in the talus rocks faces full of timber rattlesnakes. The wildlife field can be a blast. Were not getting wealthy anytime soon though😂

I’ve turned down 3 positions I’ll always regret. One was being a guide for veterans, removing elk from Theodore Roosevelt national park, one running a field lot for elk in Jackson, and one as a trout biologist in Jackson.

All those position sound amazing, the jobs I’d take if I was single 😂
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Post by: Feathernfurr on July 05, 2024, 07:32:43 PM: That was my exact reason for turning them down!