Compile data pertaining to size, content, condition, and other characteristics of forest tracts, under direction of foresters; train and lead forest workers in forest propagation, fire prevention and suppression. May assist conservation scientists in managing, improving, and protecting rangelands and wildlife habitats, and help provide technical assistance regarding the conservation of soil, water, and related natural resources.

Other names for Forest and Conservation Technicians: Park Ranger, Park Warden, Resource Manager, Resource Manager Forester, Resource Technician, Silviculturist, Soil Conservation Aide, Soil Conservation Technician, Soil Technologist, Soil Tester, Tree Expert, Tree Warden, Type Mapper, Vector Control Specialist, Wildlife Biologist, Wildlife Technician, Conservation Agent, Conservation Officer, Conservation Specialist, Conservationist, Fire Engine Operator, Fire Management Officer, Firefighter, Forest Ranger, Forest Technician, Forester, Forester Aide, Forestry Aide, Forestry Technician, Grazing Aide, Grazing Examiner, Natural Resources Technician,

• Train and lead forest and conservation workers in seasonal activities, such as planting tree seedlings, putting out forest fires and maintaining recreational facilities.
• Monitor activities of logging companies and contractors.
• Select and mark trees for thinning or logging, drawing detailed plans that include access roads.
• Thin and space trees and control weeds and undergrowth, using manual tools and chemicals, or supervise workers performing these tasks.
• Manage forest protection activities, including fire control, fire crew training, and coordination of fire detection and public education programs.
• Survey, measure, and map access roads and forest areas such as burns, cut-over areas, experimental plots, and timber sales sections.
• Patrol park or forest areas to protect resources and prevent damage.
• Provide information about, and enforce, regulations such as those concerning environmental protection, resource utilization, fire safety and accident prevention.
• Keep records of the amount and condition of logs taken to mills.
• Supervise forest nursery operations, timber harvesting, land use activities such as livestock grazing, and disease or insect control programs.
• Issue fire permits, timber permits and other forest use licenses.
• Develop and maintain computer databases.
• Measure distances, clean site-lines, and record data to help survey crews.
• Plan and supervise construction of access routes and forest roads.
• Provide forestry education and general information, advice, and recommendations to woodlot owners, community organizations, and the general public.
• Perform reforestation, or forest renewal, including nursery and silviculture operations, site preparation, seeding and tree planting programs, cone collection, and tree improvement.
• Conduct laboratory or field experiments with plants, animals, insects, diseases and soils.
• Provide technical support to forestry research programs in areas such as tree improvement, seed orchard operations, insect and disease surveys, or experimental forestry and forest engineering research.
• Inspect trees and collect samples of plants, seeds, foliage, bark and roots to locate insect and disease damage.
• Install gauges, stream flow recorders, and soil moisture measuring instruments, and collect and record data from them to assist with watershed analysis.

• Cargo trucks
• Recreational motorboats
• All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled
• Height gauges
• Track excavators
• Dredgers
• Fire suppression hand tools
• Backhoes
• Prisms
• Recreational motorboats
• Reforestation equipment
• Dump trucks
• Wheel bulldozers
• Calipers
• Power saws
• Lumbering equipment
• Clinometers
• Geological compasses
• Conventional truck cranes
• Geological prospecting apparatus
• Desktop computers
• Measuring tapes
• Dibblers
• Digital cameras
• Dump trucks
• Rainfall recorders
• Fishing boats
• Track excavators
• Agricultural tractors
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Earthmoving shovels
• Rainfall recorders
• Forklifts
• Commercial fishing nets
• Front end loaders
• Commercial fishing nets
• Decorticators
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Global positioning system receivers
• Lumbering equipment
• Sprayers
• Harrows
• Dredgers
• Rangefinders
• Forestry increment borers
• Rangefinders
• Lasers
• Laser measuring systems
• Lawnmowers
• Scanners
• Measuring tapes
• Pisciculture supplies
• Magnetometer geophysical instruments
• Calipers
• Fire suppression hand tools
• Measuring wheels for distance
• Metal detectors
• Moisture meters
• Notebook computers
• Personal computers
• pH meters
• Light trucks or sport utility vehicles
• Map measurers
• Planters
• Reforestation equipment
• Geological compasses
• Prisms
• Forestry saws
• Fire suppression hand tools
• Handheld refractometers or polarimeters
• Height gauges
• Surface data logging sensors
• Digital camcorders or video cameras
• Wheel bulldozers
• Seed drills
• Commercial fishing nets
• Shovels
• Earthmoving buckets or its parts or accessories
• Snowplow attachments
• Soil core sampling apparatus
• Moisture meters
• Soil core sampling apparatus
• Sprayers
• Fertilizer spreaders or distributors
• Measuring rods
• Open stream current meters
• Theodolites
• Theodolites
• Tensiometers
• Lighters
• Theodolites
• Theodolites
• Track bulldozers
• Motorcycles
• Commercial fishing nets
• Forestry increment borers
• Reforestation equipment
• Hydraulic truck cranes
• Water pumps
• Light trucks or sport utility vehicles
• Tug boats
• Two way radios
• Video editors
• Open stream water level recorders
• Water meters
• Water samplers
• Water samplers
• Water trucks
• Moisture meters
• Wedges
• Calipers
• Fire or rescue trucks
• Tow trucks
• Winches

Inventory management software

Office suite software

Graphics or photo imaging software

Word processing software

Presentation software

Spreadsheet software

Desktop publishing software

Data base user interface and query software

Computer aided design CAD software

Analytical or scientific software

Internet browser software

Map creation software