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Plant courses
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EARTHQUEST
Biological Field School
Environmental consultants

For graduates of our field botany courses (any of the 4 offered at discounted rates for volunteers of the Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere Reserve Project), or Botanists with an inventory rate or 1 ha/hr and a plant species list of 800 vascular plants within the Carolinian and Mixed Deciduous forest regions of Ontario - Fieldlife Environmental Consultants and Ecological Services may hire up to 2 Field Botanists. Candidates will be required to field identify all vascular plants found on the Niagara Escarpment trail system. Successful candidates will be paid an hourly rate under a sub-contractor agreement. The pay scale will vary depending on the botanical nventory rate of candidates and may follow the following hourly rate format;
1. botanical inventory rate of 1 ha/0.5 hr = $50/hr
2. botanical inventory rate of 1 ha/1 hr = $40/hr
3. botanical inventory rate of 1 ha/ 2 hrs = $30/hr
4. botanical inventory rate of 1 ha/3 - 5 hrs = $25/hr
5. botanical inventory rate of 1 ha/5 - 8 hrs = $20/hr
6. botanical inventory rate of 1 ha/8 - 10 hrs = $18/hr
7. botanical inventory rate of 1 ha/> 10 hrs = $15/hr
Field Botanist
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