Job Description:

• 1) Compiles data pertaining to size, content, condition, and other characteristics of forest tracts, under direction of FORESTER ; and leads workers in forest propagation, fire prevention and suppression, and facilities maintenance: Traverses forest in designated pattern to gather basic forest data, such as topographical features, species and population of trees, wood units available for harvest, disease and insect damage, tree seedling mortality, and conditions constituting fire danger.

• 2) Marks trees of specified specie, condition, and size for thinning or logging.

• 3) Collects and records data from instruments, such as rain gauge, thermometer, stream-flow recorder, and soil moisture gauge.