| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Environmental Forester |
- Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
- Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
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- Choose and prepare sites for new trees, using controlled burning, bulldozers, or herbicides to clear weeds, brush, and logging debris.
- Determine methods of cutting and removing timber with minimum waste and environmental damage.
- Study different tree species' classification, life history, light and soil requirements, adaptation to new environmental conditions and resistance to disease and insects.
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| Animal Behaviorist |
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
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- Inventory or estimate plant and wildlife populations.
- Analyze characteristics of animals to identify and classify them.
- Study characteristics of animals such as origin, interrelationships, classification, life histories and diseases, development, genetics, and distribution.
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| Conservation Scientist |
- Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
- Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
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- Survey property to mark locations and measurements, using surveying instruments.
- Revisit land users to view implemented land use practices and plans.
- Advise land users, such as farmers and ranchers, on conservation plans, problems and alternative solutions, and provide technical and planning assistance.
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