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Job Description
Provide technical assistance regarding the conservation of soil, water, forests, or related natural resources. May compile data pertaining to size, content, condition, and other characteristics of forest tracts, under the direction of foresters; or train and lead forest workers in forest propagation, fire prevention and suppression. May assist conservation scientists in managing, improving, and protecting rangelands and wildlife habitats.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-4093.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 38,630.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 18.00
- Currently, there are 30,090 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Forest and Conservation Technicians”.
Also Known As…
- Forest and Conservation Technicians
- Wildlife Technician
- Resource Technician
- Resource Manager
- Natural Resources Technician
- Forestry Technician
- Forestry Aide
- Forest Technician
- Forest Ranger
- Fire Technician
- Conservationist
- Wildlife Biologist
- Vector Control Specialist
- Type Mapper
- Tree Warden
- Tree Expert
- Timber Management Technician
- Timber Appraiser
- Soil Tester
- Soil Technologist
- Soil Conservation Technician
- Soil Conservation Aide
- Silviculturist
- Resource Manager Forester
- Park Warden
- Park Ranger
- Grazing Examiner
- Grazing Aide
- Forestry and Wildlife Manager
- Forestry Aid Technician
- Forester Aide
- Forester
- Firefighter
- Fire Engine Operator
- Conservation Technician
- Conservation Specialist
- Conservation Officer
- Conservation Agent
Tasks for “Fire Management Officer”
- Measure distances, clean sightlines, and record data to help survey crews.
- Manage forest protection activities, including fire control, fire crew training, and coordination of fire detection and public education programs.
- Patrol park or forest areas to protect resources and prevent damage.
- Develop and maintain computer databases.
- Install gauges, stream flow recorders, and soil moisture measuring instruments, and collect and record data from them to assist with watershed analysis.
- Conduct laboratory or field experiments with plants, animals, insects, diseases and soils.
- Monitor activities of logging companies and contractors.
- Survey, measure, and map access roads and forest areas such as burns, cut-over areas, experimental plots, and timber sales sections.
- Plan and supervise construction of access routes and forest roads.
- Provide information about, and enforce, regulations such as those concerning environmental protection, resource utilization, fire safety and accident prevention.
- Select and mark trees for thinning or logging, drawing detailed plans that include access roads.
- Supervise forest nursery operations, timber harvesting, land use activities such as livestock grazing, and disease or insect control programs.
- Keep records of the amount and condition of logs taken to mills.
- Provide forestry education and general information, advice, and recommendations to woodlot owners, community organizations, and the general public.
- Train and lead forest and conservation workers in seasonal activities, such as planting tree seedlings, putting out forest fires, and maintaining recreational facilities.
- Issue fire permits, timber permits, and other forest use licenses.
- Inspect trees and collect samples of plants, seeds, foliage, bark and roots to locate insect and disease damage.
- Provide technical support to forestry research programs in areas such as tree improvement, seed orchard operations, insect and disease surveys, or experimental forestry and forest engineering research.
- Perform reforestation or forest renewal, including nursery and silviculture operations, site preparation, seeding and tree planting programs, cone collection, and tree improvement.
- Thin and space trees and control weeds and undergrowth, using manual tools and chemicals, or supervise workers performing these tasks.
Related Technology & Tools
- Hypsometers
- Global positioning system GPS data collectors
- Water level recorders
- Grass whips
- Prisms
- Increment borers
- Tree planter spades
- Brush trucks
- Fire plows
- Brush hooks
- Moisture meters
- Planimeters
- Pocket transits
- Fertilizer spreaders
- Seed drills
- Dump trucks
- Tensiometers
- Mantax computer tree calipers
- Survey levels
- Video editing equipment
- Pulaski tools
- Watermark soil moisture data collectors
- Clearing hooks
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Front end loaders
- Personal computers
- Hydraulic truck-mounted cranes
- Electronic rain gauges ERR
- Lawn mowers
- Aerial bucket trucks
- Girdling tools
- Hydraulic dredges
- Laser rangefinders
- Basal area factor BAF prisms
- Desktop computers
- Backhoes
- Bulldozers
- Gill nets
- Slurry buckets
- Aquatic weed harvesters
- Chain saws
- Water monitoring meters
- Laser tree measuring devices
- Digital cameras
- Handheld refractometers
- Theodolites
- Gunjets for pressurized sprayers
- Wildland fire pumper trucks
- Electroshocking boats
- Measuring wheels
- Axes
- Seines
- Stadia rods
- Field data recorders
- Field personal computers PC
- Planters
- Laser surveying equipment
- Excavators
- Farm tractors
- Plug spades
- Clinometers
- Dibblers
- Wheeler pentaprism calipers
- Notebook computers
- Frame nets
- Forestry rain gauges
- Remote video cameras
- Crown densitometers
- Water monitoring samplers
- pH meters
- Soil probes
- Amphibious excavators
- Diameter tapes
- McLeod tools
- Tree corers
- Track bulldozers
- Forklifts
- Trawls
- Tugboats
- Macroalgae harvesters
- Rubber-tired bulldozers
- Terrain torches
- Geological compasses
- Harrows
- Remote sensing equipment
- Magnetic locators
- Loggers' tapes
- Truck cranes
- Trail motorbikes
- Truck-mounted water pumps
- Trucks
- Total stations
- Water samplers
- Metal detectors
- Stream flow gauges
- Shovels
- Calipers
- Soil augers
- Relaskops
- Leaf area meter scanning instruments
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Sprayers
- Wedges
- Water trucks
- Two way radios
- Airboats
- Altimeters
- Survey transits
- Snowplows
- Pickup trucks
- Winch trucks
- Soil moisture meters
- Pruning saws
- Winches
- Boats
- JRP Consulting Survey Wizard
- ESRI ArcView
- Allegro Landmark
- Corel Presentation
- Forest Vegetation Simulator FVS
- Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
- Database software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Access
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Microsoft Word
- Autodesk AutoCAD LT
- JRP Consulting Plant Wizard
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Computer graphics software
- Spreadsheet software
- Assisi Software Forest
- Atterbury Consultants SuperAce
- Fire behavior modeling software
- PhoenixPRO Forest Activity Tracking
- Traverse PC
- Microsoft Office
- Desktop publishing software
- Haglof Sweden AB TCruise Forest Inventory
- HARVEST
- Photogrammetric software
- LoggerPC software
- Ben Meadows Yeoman Expedition
- Assisi Software Compiler
- Word processing software
- RockWare ArcMap
- LJI Technologies Lumberjack
- Assisi Software Forest Inventory
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Remote sensing software
- Web browser software
- Geomechanical design analysis GDA software
- Forest EcoSurvey