| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Conservation Scientist |
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
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- Plan and direct construction and maintenance of range improvements such as fencing, corrals, stock-watering reservoirs and soil-erosion control structures.
- Provide information, knowledge, expertise, and training to government agencies at all levels to solve water and soil management problems and to assure coordination of resource protection activities.
- Tailor conservation plans to landowners' goals, such as livestock support, wildlife, or recreation.
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| Environmental Conservation Technician |
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
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- Issue fire permits, timber permits and other forest use licenses.
- Plan and supervise construction of access routes and forest roads.
- Thin and space trees and control weeds and undergrowth, using manual tools and chemicals, or supervise workers performing these tasks.
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| Environmental Forester |
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
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- Plan and supervise forestry projects, such as determining the type, number and placement of trees to be planted, managing tree nurseries, thinning forest and monitoring growth of new seedlings.
- Determine methods of cutting and removing timber with minimum waste and environmental damage.
- Monitor forest-cleared lands to ensure that they are reclaimed to their most suitable end use.
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