Jacob Johnson Email & Phone Number

My background includes a diverse hands-on experience from projects in wildlife management areas and state/national parks working with large/small mammals, fisheries, birds, vegetation, prescribed fires, and wetlands. Developed “hands-on” skills during projects working in wildlife management areas and state/national parks. • Certifications/Licenses: Wildland Fire, Firearms Safety, CPR & First Aid, Rabies Vaccination, Boating License, Lifetime Tennessee Hunting License, Chainsaw License, and Fire License for prescribed burning & fire management. • Trained in animal trapping, handling, identification, wildlife damage prevention, and humane dispatching of raccoons, beavers, possum, skunks, armadillos, shrew, mice, squirrels, snakes, tortoises, and most other native land animals. • Experience trapping with steel jaw, leg hold, conibear, snares, havahart, and oxgord. • Trained in fish trapping including gill net, cast net, drift net, seine net, angling, and shocking.My strengths include: • Animal observation, trapping, capturing, releasing, weighing, measuring & identification • Wildlife & fisheries information gathering, data analysis & research • Experience & training with chemical immobilization • Work well both individually and in a team setting • Traverse rough & mountainous terrain with equipment • Experience with map reading & operating an ATV