Forest Service Jobs and Careers in Conservation Explained (Structure, types of work, requirements)

Forest Service jobs and careers explained!
This is a new video and I don't have all the best links up yet. Comment any questions and I'll do my best to add them and respond!
Before anybody mentions the intro line, I know the Bureau of Land Management has more land but they're main focus is their Usage Mandate and not Conservation so that's why I chose that framing haha! Thanks everyone and hope you enjoy this!
FS Hiring Events Page: www.fs.usda.gov/working-with-...
GS Pay Scale: www.federalpay.org/gs/2021
FS Research Stations: www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/...

[@ecologystorymode]

Thanks everyone and hope you enjoy, love the work the media teams for the FS does and the intro is just having some fun haha. Hope this video is entertaining if not somewhat informative. Let me know about any questions and I'll try to add links to help in the description and respond!

[@landrycannon9677]

This is was so helpful, I’m graduating with a environmental science degree and ecological conservation and I want to go into forestry and this was so helpful :))

[@MountainLWolf]

Thank you for advocating for the U.S.F.S. You did a good job.
Right now the Forest Service is a mess with hiring.

[@tacocubed]

The issue isn’t hiring so much as retention. It’s not surprising considering the high level of abusers in the system literally beating people up, threatening them, and then facing zero punishment as the management shuffles them from forest to forest and paying their full transfer in the process! Abysmal.

[@garykomppa3642]

This really helps thank you I would love an in depth video or move videos to help but I definitely have a basis to go off thanks to you

[@ecologystorymode]

Definitely, I’ve mostly been trying to make videos about what I get the most questions towards and appreciate the feedback. Thank you!

[@garykomppa3642]

@@ecologystorymode np

[@isaiah7851]

Thank you for bringing us ecology story mode 🙌🏽 Can you make a video about options in San Francisco and the SF Bay area?

[@ecologystorymode]

Haha, I can do some research and see what I can throw together, I’m working on some stuff that might be relevant already but will see what I can find. I worked around Redding/sac area but that was back in the day now!

[@Jet-black_wings07]

fears to fathom - ironbark lookout 2

[@Regimented]

So in case someone wants to to an Msc program in the US
Can you make a video for international students

[@alfredodiego3920]

What if I have no degree but I’m a consultant/incident manager for Operations for a major bank, I have a love for the forests in Arizona and on the weekends I go through and clean the camps sites and forest roads unpaid. I’d like to get into the industry

[@jermhanson13]

Not enough $, I quit and started working for utilities instead of fighting fire.

[@wendyaricari5644]

Si vivo en Latinoamerica puedo postular a estos trabajos?

[@marryellenmonahan5585]

So it's just not about cleaning toilets in camping zones?

[@collinmc90]

looking to apply for forestry aid job. I have a good amount of experience working with timber since I sourced firewood for several years but I dont have any education experience to go towards this position. Is it still worth applying? I'm also currently learning about compass and chain surveying to get a head start.

[@Flyinturtles007]

I would still apply. I'm not a expert but I have the opposite of you (no experience but a 4 year degree(in criminal justice which hardly relates to forestry)) and I have still recently gotten a few jobs offers. I would just apply to as many positions as you can find and be flexible with location.

[@housetent9176]

@@Flyinturtles007I think a criminal justice degree would help a lot if your looking to become a ranger since it’s mostly a law enforcement role.

[@willofdodge1]

Will the Forrest Service pay for college l?

[@42N8_1]

Join the military if you need your education funded.

[@Earthto_Ayo]

If you start out at a lower level, can you work up without a degree?

[@ecologystorymode]

hmm, this one is kind of tricky. so if you go on the tech pay scale which in a lot of job series doesn’t require a degree to start you can work to the top(wildland fire is a tech scale at the moment for forestry and the top of that doesn’t need to go to school). there are job series with no certifications to advance that you can get through work or before. some places will provide educational opportunities to people they want to move up just depending on funding and what jobs are available. my current position is associated with a university so this isn’t really uncommon but it’s so individualized to what you want to do and where you go. generally, yes there is a career progression in anything you can enter without a degree including just going up in scale and responsibilities as a tech.

[@ZentaWinds]

This is some really useful information ​@@ecologystorymode

[@rangerjay7971]

You don't want a forest service job anymore, the agency has deteriorated and is top heavy, you work yourself nearly to death for very little. The stress level is draining and the drama is never ending. Where did this guy get his information? I doubt he worked for the forest service.

[@auburn.JoaoDuarte]

What work do you recommend in the forests, no degree, only hs diploma

[@user-vv2wd9vm4l]

Forest Circus more like it

[@ecologystorymode]

Amen brother