JOB: Prescribed Fire Strike Team Member

The Tennessee Division of Forestry is accepting applications for a Prescribed Fire Strike Team Crew Member based out of Westel, TN (Cumberland Co) Application Closing Date is 2/23/2021 The Prescribed Fire Strike Team carries out on-the-ground forestry vendor services statewide, based on demand, resources, and weather. Under direct supervision of a Crew Boss, the crew… Continue reading JOB: Prescribed Fire Strike Team Member

Summer Camp Internship for your students

My name is Jake McClure and I work with Clemson University’s Camp Wildlife Program. This program teaches kids about Wildlife Ecology and Shooting Sports. I’m emailing you in hopes that you would pass this information along to your students who may be interested in working in this kind of environment. Camp Wildlife is located in… Continue reading Summer Camp Internship for your students

Field Representative Position for American Lumber Standard Committee

American Lumber Standard Committee (ALSC) is in the process of hiring a field representative for the Midwest Region. The ALSC system is an integral part of the forest product industry’s economy and is the basis for the sale and purchase of virtually all softwood lumber traded in North America. We would like nothing more than… Continue reading Field Representative Position for American Lumber Standard Committee

IT/GIS Specialist Position

Begin forwarded message: From: "Cludray, Patti L" <plc1> Subject: IT/GIS Specialist Position Date: 2021-01-25 at 9:55:56 AM CST To: FORESTRY-L Reply-To: FORESTRY-L <FORESTRY-L> We are beginning recruitment for an IT/GIS Specialist position in Manhattan, KS. Would you be able to help us again in our search for potential candidates? Application screening will begin on February… Continue reading IT/GIS Specialist Position

Vacancy Announcement

Please distribute to any graduates or future graduates you think would be interested. Any questions regarding the position, may be directed to me. Thank you, Byron E. Rominger Forest Inventory Coordinator South Carolina Forestry Commission 5500 Broad River Rd. Columbia, SC 29212 Office: (803) 896-8804 Fax: (803) 798-8097 Cell: (803) 667-1063 Email: brominger SC Registered… Continue reading Vacancy Announcement

Forestry students: Adams County Farm Bureau scholarship

Hi Forestry Majors from Adams County, IL: If you are current Forestry major from Adams County, please review this scholarship to see if you qualify to apply. Forestry has been working more closely with the Farm Bureau in recent years, many farms have forested areas which require management plans and treatments. Also more and more… Continue reading Forestry students: Adams County Farm Bureau scholarship

Outreach Hoosier NF GS-0193-07/09 Archaeologist

The Hoosier National Forest is outreaching for a permanent GS-0193-07/09 Archaeologist, located in Tell City, Indiana. Please share with anyone who may be interested. This outreach is to determine interest in the position only, and respondents will be notified via email when the vacancy announcement becomes available. There will be a separate process to apply… Continue reading Outreach Hoosier NF GS-0193-07/09 Archaeologist

Attention_Current Students_ Summer 2021 Internships at Rend Lake

Below is the link for the three pathways positions being filled at Rend Lake. This is for current students, and has the potential to turn into a permanent position within the St. Louis District upon graduation. Please disseminate to any students that may be interested. The closing date is sooner than we had originally anticipated,… Continue reading Attention_Current Students_ Summer 2021 Internships at Rend Lake

Job Announcement – Senior Private Land Conservationist – Garden City, Kansas

Please see the attached job announcement for a Senior Private Land Conservationist in Garden City, Kansas with Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever. This position will be located within USDA Service Center and will provide conservation technical assistance and conservation program delivery to private landowners within their assigned districts and other priority areas as appropriate. In… Continue reading Job Announcement – Senior Private Land Conservationist – Garden City, Kansas

Example Summit Sunrise Vista Site Atop Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park

Sunrise vistas are among the most popular activity sites at national forests and parks; the reward-to-effort ratio is typically very high. On the way to a comfortable perch, visitors can cause crowding and conflict by competing for desirable sites. One usual effect is that the trampled extent of the vista viewing area expands radially out… Continue reading Example Summit Sunrise Vista Site Atop Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park

Index of 3D Interactive Onsite Google Earth Maps for This Course

Acadia National Park 3D Interactive Onsite Google Earth Map Cache River Valley Wetlands, Illinois, 3D Interactive Onsite Google Earth Map Denali National Park, Alaska, 3D Interactive Onsite Google Earth Map Evergreen Community Model, Illinois, 3D Interactive Onsite Google Earth Map Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve, Colorado, 3D Interactive Onsite Google Earth Map Haleakala… Continue reading Index of 3D Interactive Onsite Google Earth Maps for This Course

Example: Food-Attracted Seagull Gives Dr. Park the Side-Eyes at Acadia National Park

Wildlife quickly learn that refined, carb- & fat-rich human foods can replace days of dangerous exertion hunting or foraging for food. Then they also try swallowing things like fishing line, plastic bags, disposable lighters, and mylar food wrappers. Then they die or have to be euthanized. Site: Basalt shoreline south of Thunder Hole, Ocean Drive… Continue reading Example: Food-Attracted Seagull Gives Dr. Park the Side-Eyes at Acadia National Park

Example Vista: Sunset at Blue Hill Overlook at Acadia National Park

Blue Hill Overlook is managed as developed frontcountry sacrifice zone: demand is so high to view sunsets here–for 2+ million visitors annually–that heavy use and the associated vegetation & soil impacts are concentrated here to protect other, similarly fragile areas nearby. The use is concentrated onto naturally impact-resistant pink granite bedrock. Ascending Cadillac Mountain Road… Continue reading Example Vista: Sunset at Blue Hill Overlook at Acadia National Park

Interpreting Peregrine Falcon Cliff-Nesting Sites at Acadia National Park

Park staff close the wildly popular via ferrata (off-harness/nontechincal climbing route) Precipice Trail seasonally to protect the peregrine falcon nesting sites using the same cliffline. They also work hard to contact visitors here, armed with spotting scopes, to explain why the trail is closed. Visitors behave much more prosaically once they understand what’s at stake.… Continue reading Interpreting Peregrine Falcon Cliff-Nesting Sites at Acadia National Park

Alaskan Sled Dogs (Working Animals) demo at Denali National Park

Much of Denali National Park is federally-designated wilderness. Traditional land uses, like Alaskan sled dog travel, are A-OK in wilderness. These dogs, though…let me tell you they’re bred to live like the hottest of hot-blooded racehorses. Intelligent, highly trainable, and completely pants-on-head over the top insanely energetic. I remember these barking as though possessed for… Continue reading Alaskan Sled Dogs (Working Animals) demo at Denali National Park

Moose Jam at Denali National Park

Forest Wildlife Habitat Managers, this is what your visitors will do when encountering any type of charismatic megafauna. These behaviors can cause tremendous problems if not managed. Done right, though, this is a safe, healthy, and exciting experience for your visitors and protective of the wildlife as well. In this location at Denali NP, visitors… Continue reading Moose Jam at Denali National Park

Glacial Outwash Plain at Denali National Park

This is the post-glaciated equivalent of a river’s alluvial fan (cone-shaped deposit of coarse fragments / “alluvia”). Forest hydrologists, this is what a river’s alluvial fan looks like when it’s generated from a glacier’s outwash just upstream. Video: Logan Park 2007 3D Interactive Google Earth Onsite

Exercise: Listen for the unique soundscape / natural quiet of a cobble beach

Since the 1990s, national park systems around the world have begun to incorporate natural quiet and soundscapes as a precious and fragile natural resource. Noise pollution has powerful deleterious effects on human health and well-being, as well as for wildlife! Bass Harbor Head, Mount Desert Island Unit, Acadia National Park, Maine, USNPS 44° 13′ 30″… Continue reading Exercise: Listen for the unique soundscape / natural quiet of a cobble beach

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Wild edibles, such as fiddlehead ferns, blueberries, blackberries/raspberries, etc. can tempt people to go crashing through woody vegetative undergrowth in search of sweet morsels. A thirty-second diversion into a berry patch can destroy years of growth for sensitive species. Site: Bass Harbor Head, Mount Desert Island Unit, Acadia National Park, Maine USNPS 44° 13′ 19.92″… Continue reading Untitled

Example: Visitor-Created Trail Soil Subsidence (Erosion + Compaction) at Acadia National Park

This is an example of a “Condition Class 5” (active erosional processes underway) trail segment in saturated subalpine acidic soil over granite (insoluble, low pH buffering) parent material. These roots shouldn’t be visible and degloved (bark stripped off by lugged boot sole trampling) under natural/non-trampled conditions. Site: Forested shoreline east of Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse,… Continue reading Example: Visitor-Created Trail Soil Subsidence (Erosion + Compaction) at Acadia National Park

Example: What hardening a resource against rec impact looks like at Acadia National Park

Observe the basalt/granite stone steps sourced from local material. Also observe the custom-built boardwalk (raised wooden) stairs. Both are used all across the national park by Acadia National Park’s management team to physically separate 2+ million annual visitors’ feet from the fragile subalpine, shoreside lenses of thin, acidic spruce & fir needle-based soils. Onsite Interactive… Continue reading Example: What hardening a resource against rec impact looks like at Acadia National Park

Caribou Causing Congestion

The tundra brush in Denali National Park can grow quite thickly, slowing wildlife travel, costing more precious calories, and concealing hungry predators. Some species adapt by using cleared human transportation infrastructure like the Denali Park Road to move much more quickly. Joe van Horn, Denali’s Chief of Resource Management at the time (2007) is driving… Continue reading Caribou Causing Congestion

Natural Resource Conflicts Section, Human Dimensions, Day 5:

Important Reminder: Keep an eye on D2L for the link to this afternoon’s debriefing with Dr. Akamani (Zoom) at 4pm Central USA time. For a detailed understanding of Lesson 5: Natural resource conflicts and wicked problems, please read Rittel and Webber (1973), Nie (2003), and Brooks & Champ (2006). All readings are available in the… Continue reading Natural Resource Conflicts Section, Human Dimensions, Day 5:

Natural Resource Planning Section Human Dimensions Day 3: Natural Resources Planning and the Cache River Valley

Complete: Lesson 3 Reading Assignment (from yesterday evening in the course calendar): Behnken et al 2016 Constraints to collaborative ecosystem management (D2L .pdf file) Cortner and Moote 1999 chapter 2 (D2L .pdf file) Cortner and Moote 1999 chapter 3 (D2L .pdf file) Comprehend: Lesson 3 Evolving approaches to natural resource management (D2L PowerPoint .pptx file)… Continue reading Natural Resource Planning Section Human Dimensions Day 3: Natural Resources Planning and the Cache River Valley

Wildlife Displacement Behavior: Great Blue Heron

Interactive Google Earth Onsite This is what it looks like when a wildlife species decides to leave an area upon human arrival. Repeated throughout the day, these little encounters effectively degrade the habitat for the disturbed species. Each species has its own “flight radius” within which it will try to flee from human approach.

Clearcutting Chokes Current

Historic clearcutting practices by some of the early western settlers and farmers to the area caused massive, massive soil erosion into rivers like the Current and Jacks Fork of Ozark National Scenic Riverways. These river channels were once described as deep, fast-flowing, and routinely scoured by flooding. Now, they are choked with gravel, cobble and… Continue reading Clearcutting Chokes Current

Cave Spring Aperture

Cave spring is what a wet seep looks like when it grows to the size of a small river. This karst (calcareous / limestone-type wet cave could serve as solid habitat for a variety of aquatic & cave species, but its easy access and high desirability among human visitors puts a lot of pressure on… Continue reading Cave Spring Aperture

Bedrock and soil hardened parkitecture at Devil’s Well

Site: Devil’s Well at Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Missouri Safe and durable facilities have to be built custom and usually onsite in order to provide access to–but protect from visitor impacts–sites like the karst sinkhole / cave / underground lake at Dvil’s Well, Ozark National Scenic Riverways.

Antidunes migrating upstream

Medano Creek is a sinking stream, but of a different kind than we’re used to in the karst (eroded, effectively porous/fractured limestone-type) geology we’re used to in the southern Midwest. Here in southern central Colorado, the sandy, wind-deposited soil forces the stream aboveground here and there and lets it disappear to flow slowly through the… Continue reading Antidunes migrating upstream

Managing Rivers Large and Small

Read this: Watch this short intro to Ozark National Scenic Riverways (1m): https://www.facebook.com/Ozarkriverways/videos/319674212301433/ Watch this condensed 45-mile Current River float trip (10m): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBenak-PbnQ Explore the route shown in the video above using Google Earth for high-resolution 3D onsite tour. Get to know Big Spring using these onsite summer camp and class field trip videos:

Exercise: Rec Summer Camp Stream Gaging

Calculate stream discharge using the two worksheets in the file.  One worksheet is for the floating object method and one dataset is for the midpoint method using the Marsh-McBirney Flowmeter.  Optional extra explanation: How USGS applies the concept Dr. Williard is explaining. Optional USGS realtime data (example) used by forest hydrologists 

Example Federal Fire Hire + Advice From SIU Forestry Alum Jeremy

I received another posting from Forestry Alum, Jeremy Surprenant.  I will also include part of Jeremy’s message to me below.  Good luck, we would love to see more SIU Foresters in these permanent positions.  He invites you to call him if you have questions.All the Best, Patti ______________________________________ From: Jeremy: Most people looking for jobs… Continue reading Example Federal Fire Hire + Advice From SIU Forestry Alum Jeremy

Cultural Cairns on Cinder Cones at Haleakalā National Park’s Crater Wilderness

Exercise: Determine how you’d manage visitor impacts to a site that’s culturally/spiritually important to native Hawaiians in the crater wilderness. For those of you that grew up in a typical western Christian tradition, this would be like somebody setting up their backpacking tent in your church or family graveyard, and playing around there. Interactive Onsite… Continue reading Cultural Cairns on Cinder Cones at Haleakalā National Park’s Crater Wilderness

Management Exercise: Close Down Visitor-Created Trails at Haleakalā’s Cinder Cone Rim?

Now that you have the briefest of introductions to the site, explore it in high resolution using Google Earth, for our class exercise: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZV5dgw069v-S5urkXK0UZKucP0EE0imm&usp=sharing So, how would you address the visitor motivation to explore, the resource impacts to soil, vegetation, and wildlife, and visitor safety/risk?

Open Positions – Forestry Technicians & Crew Leads

Hello, I hope this email finds you well. I am Amanda McGarry and I work as a Member Coordinator for the American Conservation Experience – Emerging Professional Internship Corps. We are currently recruiting for a large crew of Forestry Technicians and Crew Leads for the May-October/November season on the Tahoe National Forest. These positions are… Continue reading Open Positions – Forestry Technicians & Crew Leads

Example Federal U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Park Ranger Job Announcement Via Network

Hi Doc, If you‘ve know anybody who wants to come work with me up in the eastern Sierras have them throw their name in.  Hope you and Ms. Emmy are doing ok with all of the fun times! Ely Lane Park Ranger, Bureau of Land Management  USDI Region 10 760-872-5008 Bishop Field Office  351 Pacu Lane… Continue reading Example Federal U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Park Ranger Job Announcement Via Network