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