Field Positions in Forest Management

Hiring Organization: Great Basin Institute
Employment type: Full-Time
Job Location: Various
Application Due Date: April 15, 2023

The Great Basin Institute, in cooperation with the USFS, is recruiting Forestry Crews to perform timber sale-preparation, vegetation management, post fire recovery, and fuels reduction efforts to support initiatives for healthy, productive, and resilient forest landscapes and resources in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Forestry Crews will perform a wide variety of activities to support all stages of project work. Forestry duties may include, but are not limited to:

Timber sale unit boundary delineation and layout (GPS, flagging, painting);
Tree species identification;
Green and salvage timber marking and cruising;
Timber and biomass plot cruising;
Collection of stand examination data;
General silviculture data collection; and

Identification of various resource concerns including hydrology, heritage, wildlife and recreation.

We are hiring in multiple National Forests which include: Tahoe, Sequoia, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Eldorado, Lassen, Plumas, and Stanislaus.

These projects all serve the Basin & Range Forestry program’s greater mission of helping the USFS in their critical goal of improving forest resilience in the face of worsening climate conditions and increased wildfire threats. The work that you will do directly improves the quality of these forests helping ensure they continue to thrive for generations to come.

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