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U.S. Marine Corps · Posted 46 days ago
About the Role
This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.
What You'll Do
- →You will develop forest area timber harvest plans based on field sample plots, maps, aerial photography, and computerized map and inventory data.
- →You will provide advice, technical support, and evaluation of proposed and ongoing timber sales, to prevent loss of timber productivity and damage to the environment.
- →You will plan, coordinate, and evaluate the timber stand improvement program; prescribe cutting practices based on an examination of stand conditions, aesthetics, or other resource requirements.
- →You will collect and assess the weather and fuel data necessary to determine the wildfire and prescribed fire management strategies.
- →You will provide training and assign work to Government and volunteer employees involved with forest pest suppression projects.
Requirements
- ✓In lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience: 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree In addition to meeting specialized experience/education the Basic requirements are also needed for this position. 1.
- ✓Degree: forestry; or a related subject-matter field that included a total of at least 30 semester hours in any combination of biological, physical, or mathematical sciences or engineering, of which at least 24 semester hours of course work were in forestry.
- ✓The curriculum must have been sufficiently diversified to include courses in each of the following areas: Management of Renewable Resources -- study of the science and art of managing renewable resources to attain desired results.
- ✓Examples of creditable courses in this area include silviculture, forest management operations, timber management, wildland fire science or fire management, utilization of forest resources, forest regulation, recreational land management, watershed management, and wildlife or range habitat management.
- ✓Forest Biology -- study of the classification, distribution, characteristics, and identification of forest vegetation, and the interrelationships of living organisms to the forest environment.
- ✓Examples of creditable courses in this area include dendrology, forest ecology, silvics, forest genetics, wood structure and properties, forest soils, forest entomology, and forest pathology.
- ✓Forest Resource Measurements and Inventory -- sampling, inventory, measurement, and analysis techniques as applied to a variety of forest resources.
- ✓Examples of creditable courses include forest biometrics, forest mensuration, forest valuation, statistical analysis of forest resource data, renewable natural resources inventories and analysis, and photogrammetry or remote sensing.
- ✓Combination of education and experience: courses equivalent to a major in forestry, or at least 30 semester hours in any combination of biological, physical, or mathematical sciences or engineering, of which at least 24 semester hours were in forestry.
- ✓The requirements for diversification of the 24 semester hours in forestry are the same as shown in A above, plus appropriate experience or additional education.
Personality Fit
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