How do they match: Foresters

  • Natural Resources Specialist

  • Manage public and private forested lands for economic, recreational, and conservation purposes. May inventory the type, amount, and location of standing timber, appraise the timber's worth, negotiate the purchase, and draw up contracts for procurement. May determine how to conserve wildlife habitats, creek beds, water quality, and soil stability, and how best to comply with environmental regulations. May devise plans for planting and growing new trees, monitor trees for healthy growth, and determine optimal harvesting schedules.

  • Analyze effect of forest conditions on tree growth rates and tree species prevalence and the yield, duration, seed production, growth viability, and germination of different species.
  • Choose and prepare sites for new trees, using controlled burning, bulldozers, or herbicides to clear weeds, brush, and logging debris.
  • Develop techniques for measuring and identifying trees.
  • Perform inspections of forests or forest nurseries.
  • Plan and supervise forestry projects, such as determining the type, number and placement of trees to be planted, managing tree nurseries, thinning forest and monitoring growth of new seedlings.
  • Study different tree species' classification, life history, light and soil requirements, adaptation to new environmental conditions and resistance to disease and insects.
  • Subcontract with loggers or pulpwood cutters for tree removal and to aid in road layout.
  • Supervise activities of other forestry workers.

  • Conduct research of processes in natural or industrial ecosystems.
  • Develop plans to manage natural or renewable resources.
  • Direct natural resources management or conservation programs.
  • Inspect condition of natural environments.
  • Plan natural resources conservation or restoration programs.