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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 Aid Technician
- Forester Aide
- Forester
- Firefighter
- Fire Management Officer
- Fire Engine Operator
- Conservation Technician
- Conservation Specialist
- Conservation Officer
- Conservation Agent
Tasks for “Forestry and Wildlife Manager”
- Train and lead forest and conservation workers in seasonal activities, such as planting tree seedlings, putting out forest fires, and maintaining recreational facilities.
- Provide information about, and enforce, regulations such as those concerning environmental protection, resource utilization, fire safety and accident prevention.
- 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.
- Conduct laboratory or field experiments with plants, animals, insects, diseases and soils.
- Thin and space trees and control weeds and undergrowth, using manual tools and chemicals, or supervise workers performing these tasks.
- 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.
- Measure distances, clean sightlines, and record data to help survey crews.
- Supervise forest nursery operations, timber harvesting, land use activities such as livestock grazing, and disease or insect control programs.
- Issue fire permits, timber permits, and other forest use licenses.
- Keep records of the amount and condition of logs taken to mills.
- Patrol park or forest areas to protect resources and prevent damage.
- Plan and supervise construction of access routes and forest roads.
- Select and mark trees for thinning or logging, drawing detailed plans that include access roads.
- Perform reforestation or forest renewal, including nursery and silviculture operations, site preparation, seeding and tree planting programs, cone collection, and tree improvement.
- Provide forestry education and general information, advice, and recommendations to woodlot owners, community organizations, and the general public.
- Manage forest protection activities, including fire control, fire crew training, and coordination of fire detection and public education programs.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Water monitoring samplers
- All terrain vehicles ATV
- Grass whips
- Remote video cameras
- Hydraulic dredges
- Measuring wheels
- Pulaski tools
- Front end loaders
- Harrows
- Remote sensing equipment
- Wedges
- Video editing equipment
- Gunjets for pressurized sprayers
- Prisms
- Relaskops
- Global positioning system GPS receivers
- Trucks
- Fire plows
- Terrain torches
- Tree planter spades
- Rubber-tired bulldozers
- Dibblers
- Fertilizer spreaders
- Track bulldozers
- Global positioning system GPS data collectors
- Field data recorders
- Magnetic locators
- Chain saws
- Mantax computer tree calipers
- Planimeters
- Handheld refractometers
- Loggers' tapes
- Soil augers
- Truck-mounted water pumps
- Wildland fire pumper trucks
- Laser tree measuring devices
- Water level recorders
- Forklifts
- Gill nets
- Digital cameras
- Field personal computers PC
- Pruning saws
- Wheeler pentaprism calipers
- Tensiometers
- Stream flow gauges
- pH meters
- Crown densitometers
- Water monitoring meters
- Laser surveying equipment
- Electronic rain gauges ERR
- Winches
- Frame nets
- Snowplows
- Aquatic weed harvesters
- Soil probes
- Seed drills
- Clearing hooks
- Two way radios
- Backhoes
- Farm tractors
- Lawn mowers
- Macroalgae harvesters
- Airboats
- Electroshocking boats
- Plug spades
- Girdling tools
- Hydraulic truck-mounted cranes
- Water trucks
- Planters
- Leaf area meter scanning instruments
- Aerial bucket trucks
- Pickup trucks
- Sprayers
- Total stations
- Calipers
- Water samplers
- Truck cranes
- Clinometers
- Moisture meters
- Survey levels
- Bulldozers
- Seines
- Excavators
- Theodolites
- Boats
- Axes
- Basal area factor BAF prisms
- Slurry buckets
- Laser rangefinders
- Increment borers
- Dump trucks
- Survey transits
- Winch trucks
- Hypsometers
- Geological compasses
- Notebook computers
- Shovels
- Soil moisture meters
- Stadia rods
- Tree corers
- Altimeters
- Pocket transits
- Personal computers
- Desktop computers
- Diameter tapes
- McLeod tools
- Watermark soil moisture data collectors
- Tugboats
- Trawls
- Trail motorbikes
- Forestry rain gauges
- Amphibious excavators
- Metal detectors
- Brush hooks
- Brush trucks
- Forest EcoSurvey
- Computer graphics software
- Word processing software
- PhoenixPRO Forest Activity Tracking
- Autodesk AutoCAD LT
- Web browser software
- Leica Geosystems ERDAS IMAGINE
- LJI Technologies Lumberjack
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Haglof Sweden AB TCruise Forest Inventory
- ESRI ArcView
- Geomechanical design analysis GDA software
- Database software
- JRP Consulting Survey Wizard
- Assisi Software Forest Inventory
- HARVEST
- Spreadsheet software
- Desktop publishing software
- Microsoft Access
- Forest Vegetation Simulator FVS
- LoggerPC software
- Microsoft Word
- Traverse PC
- Assisi Software Forest
- Corel Presentation
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- Remote sensing software
- Atterbury Consultants SuperAce
- JRP Consulting Plant Wizard
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Photogrammetric software
- Allegro Landmark
- Fire behavior modeling software
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Ben Meadows Yeoman Expedition
- Assisi Software Compiler
- RockWare ArcMap