| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Environmental Conservation Technician |
- Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
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- Survey, measure, and map access roads and forest areas such as burns, cut-over areas, experimental plots, and timber sales sections.
- Conduct laboratory or field experiments with plants, animals, insects, diseases and soils.
- Select and mark trees for thinning or logging, drawing detailed plans that include access roads.
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| Environmental Forester |
- Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
- Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
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- Plan cutting programs and manage timber sales from harvested areas, assisting companies to achieve production goals.
- Negotiate terms and conditions of agreements and contracts for forest harvesting, forest management and leasing of forest lands.
- Plan and direct forest surveys and related studies and prepare reports and recommendations.
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| Animal Behaviorist |
- Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
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- Study animals in their natural habitats, assessing effects of environment and industry on animals, interpreting findings and recommending alternative operating conditions for industry.
- Raise specimens for study and observation or for use in experiments.
- Disseminate information by writing reports and scientific papers or journal articles, and by making presentations and giving talks for schools, clubs, interest groups and park interpretive programs.
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