Minimum Qualifications Thirty (30) semester credit hours, including twelve (12) semester credit hours in forestry, which must include at least one course in three or more of the following areas : botany, dendrology, forest biology, forest ecology, forest ecosystem management, forest entomology, forest health, forest mensuration, forest pathology, forest protection, forest soils, general soils, geographic information systems, land surveying and silviculture; OR
One (1) year of technical forestry experience in one (1) or more of the following areas : forest management, including sale and removal of timber products;
nursery management, including the transplanting of tree or shrub seedlings; forest pest management, including control of diseases and insect pests.
Duties Description Incumbent will complete forestry technician work on state forest properties and privately owned lands under the direction of a professional Forester.
- Incumbent may be required to work alone, in rough terrain, and perform some physical labor. Duties include : gather field data using hand-held GPS unit and / or electronic data collector, 10 BAF prism, clinometer, tree scale stick and other related equipment, using standard procedures;
- input field data into the State Forest Inventory Database; assist with forest type and asset mapping using GIS technology;
- assist Foresters in marking forest product sales; perform timber volume computations; monitor sales activity for compliance with contract requirements;
perform some asset maintenance tasks such as carrying lumber and removing leaves from ditches; assess stocking levels, forest management activities, and boundary line marking on private forest lands.
Essential skills include : tree identification, tree diameter and height measurement, GPS navigation, GIS data manipulation.