Forester

Forester Job Duties

The Forester:

• Serves as a member of  that develops and designs projects for the forest management program. He/she would identify forest management activities on specific tracts which result in the Field Office meeting its ASQ and RMP commitment. The forester serves as a Field Office harvesting and logging systems technical specialist. He/she prepares viable and acceptable logging and harvest plans. Identifies and finds solutions to road location, harvesting, logging, site preparation, fire protection, fuels/slash treatment, and environmental protection problems and concerns.
• Prepares a variety of timber sale and silvicultural service contracts. Contracts must fully implement accepted plans, agency policies, and multiple resource management objectives. Contracts must be legally exacting, clearly specified, and readily enforceable. Designs contract provisions based upon field conditions, knowledge of past practices, and policy and guidelines.
• Evaluates timber sale requirements and ongoing operations to insure that resource management and environmental protection goals are achieved.
• Inspects operations to ensure contract compliance and interprets contract provisions consistently. Makes on-the-spot decisions and gives instructions to operators to resolve sale issues. The forester prepares all correspondence, documentation, and bills for each sale.
• Prescribes silvicultural and site preparation treatments based on field exams of stand conditions and other resource values.

Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.

Salary Ranges for Grant Pass, Klamath, Medford, North Bend, Prineville, Roseburg, Springfield and Tillamook Oregon:

GS-07: $50,460- $65,599

GS-09: $61,722 - $80,243

Salary Ranges for Salem, Oregon:

GS-07: $54,370 - $70,682

GS-09: $66,505 - $86,461