Forest Service - Forester Summer Intern
This is an intern program with the US Forest Service. Upon completion of the program and graduating with a qualifying Forestry Degree, the candidate would be eligible for non-competitive placement in a permanent Forestry job with the US Forest Service on the Rogue River - Siskiyou National Forest or other National Forests.
Duties as an intern:
- Receives training in the principles, concepts, work processes, and regulations of one or more functional areas of Natural Resources Management and Biological Sciences.
- Work assignments are usually clear-cut and designed to provide experience in a variety of activities. Main assignments would be supporting the delivery of the Timber Sale contracts, fuels/restoration treatments, and reforestation surveys.
- On a scheduled basis, following the Pathways Participant Agreement, receives assignments in various Natural Resources Management and Biological Sciences functions to gain an understanding of the various program concepts and operations.
- Develop an understanding of the total mission as well as organizational/functional interrelationships, and develop a foundation for more specialized application of knowledge gained from on-the-job training assignments.
- Receives formal and on-the-job training in OPM, Department of Agriculture and Forest Service policies, rules, regulations, and procedures.
- Is instructed on the use of personal computers, and file and data management.