Silviculturist


 * Silviculturist**

What a Silviculturist does?
 * Studies trees
 * Helps take care of trees, mainly in the forest.
 * Control regeneration, composition, growth, and quality.
 * Identify disease and pests, they help keep the trees on our planet healthy and growing.
 * Monitor contract compliance and results of forestry activities.

Working enviorment
 * Most of the time their outdoors in the forest
 * Privately or public owned lands
 * Enviormental organizations
 * Parks departments
 * Tree care serviece firms
 * Logging companies
 * Spend sometime indoors, in offices or labs.

Education
 * Certification is based upon the satisfactory completion of the Program of Advanced studies in Silviculture (PASS)
 * Certification is for four years
 * Bachelors degree

Knowledge
 * Computers and Electronics
 * Administration and management
 * Mathematics
 * English Language
 * Biology
 * Geography
 * Customer and Personal Service
 * Law and Government
 * Education and Training

Job Oppertunities
 * Olympia, WA
 * Trees For Tomorrow, Eagle River
 * Kaplan University, KHE
 * Total employeed nationally: 9,470

What Trees Provide
 * Oxygen
 * Food for humans, animals, and also insects
 * Shelter for animals and insects
 * Paper

Salary
 * Entry salary- $28,750 per year
 * Average salary- $52,000 per year
 * Maximum salary- $85,460 per year
 * Salaries can vary greatly due to company, location, industry, experience and benefits
 * Hourly wage- $26.82

Work Scedual
 * Work regular hours
 * Unless emrgency including floods or severe wind storms then they work longer hours

Tools
 * Dangerous Power tools
 * Powerful chemicals
 * Power tools
 * Ladders
 * Ropes
 * Axes
 * Brush trucks
 * Chain saw
 * Fire plows
 * Grass whips
 * Lawn mower
 * Shovels
 * Snowplow
 * Wedges

Skills
 * Monitoring
 * Speaking
 * Critical thinking
 * Coordination
 * Complex Problem Solving
 * Judgemen and decision making
 * System analysis
 * Time management
 * Active Listening
 * Systems Evaluation
 * Management of personel resources
 * Writing
 * Managment of material resources
 * Operation Monitoring
 * Have to be in good shape

Dangers
 * Climbing trees
 * Working with heavy utility
 * Heavy, sharp, and dangerous equipment
 * large heavy branches
 * risk of getting a disease
 * heights

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