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