| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Environmental Conservation Technician |
- Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
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- Monitor activities of logging companies and contractors.
- Manage forest protection activities, including fire control, fire crew training, and coordination of fire detection and public education programs.
- Conduct laboratory or field experiments with plants, animals, insects, diseases and soils.
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| Environmental Forester |
- Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
- Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
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- Develop new techniques for wood or residue use.
- Procure timber from private landowners.
- 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.
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| Conservation Scientist |
- Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
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- Take photographs and motion pictures for use in lectures and publications and to develop displays.
- Participate on work teams to plan, develop, and implement water and land management programs and policies.
- Develop, conduct, or participate in surveys, studies, and investigations of various land uses, gathering information for use in developing corrective action plans.
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