Bailey Daining Email & Phone Number

Greeneville, Tennessee, United States

• Trapping, safe capture, handling, and transport of live black bears• Independent decision making on how to manage bears in our care• Provide medical care, natural foods, and water to injured and/or orphaned black bear cubs and yearlings in preparation to be reintroduced back into the wild• Increase public awareness about coexisting with black bears

Townsend, Tn

• Provide care, natural foods, and water to injured and/or orphaned black bear cubs in preparation to be reintroduced back into the wild• Increase public awareness about coexisting with black bears

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

• Assist with aversive conditioning, trapping, and aiding in the safe capture, handling, and transport of live black bears• Use paintball guns, bangers, and screamers to haze bears in close proximity to people, roads, trails, and campgrounds while facilitating safe wildlife viewing opportunities for visitors during roadside wildlife encounters• Make independent decisions on how to manage bear viewing opportunities based on management, visitor safety, and animal behavior• Perform biological assessments, collected samples (blood, teeth, hair, fecal, brain stems, and parasites) from harvested hogs, black bears, coyotes, and white-tailed deer• Hike up to 15 miles per day carrying up to 40 pounds of equipment in all weather conditions• Interact with and provide information to large volumes of visitors of various cultural, racial, and ethnic backgrounds via impromptu interpretive educational talks related to wildlife, the environment, and the history of the Great Smoky Mountains

Region 4

• Safely operate, transport, and maintain UTVs, tractors, tractor attachments, trailers, traps, and tools• Small mammal trapping for non-game biological data surveys• Eradication of invasive and undesirable plant species from wildlife management areas via mechanical removal and/or herbicide application (boomless sprayer, hand sprayer, backpack sprayer)• Backpack and boat electroshocked fish species for Index of Biological Integrity surveys• Operate, bait, and transport traps and snares• Independently perform bear visitation surveys• Operate chainsaws to conduct vegetation management practices• Work under inclement weather conditions and lift 50 pounds

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

• Independently scouted, baited, monitored, tracked, and euthanized wild hogs and small mammals• Aid in eradication of invasive and undesirable species through mechanical removal and/or herbicide application (boomless sprayer, hand sprayer, backpack sprayer)• Participate in prescribed burns for ecological improvement of bobwhite quail habitat• Work under inclement weather conditions and lift 50 pounds

Bachelor'S Degree, Wildlife, Fish And Wildlands Science And Management, 3.51

Associate Of Science - As