Employer: Forest Dynamics Laboratory, University of Alabama Location: Tuscaloosa, Alabama Application deadline: December 1, 2023 Full position description and application instructions Summary: The PhD student will investigate disturbance and development patterns in mixed pine-oak forests, including effects of prescribed fire, thinning, and harvesting treatments. The student will work collaboratively with state and federal partners to improve our understanding of stand dynamics in pine-oak mixedwoods and to refine silvicultural prescriptions to promote mixed species stands.

Employer: Hemlock Restoration Initiative Location: Asheville, NC Application deadline: please submit as soon as possible. Anticipated start date is late Sept Full job description and instructions for how to apply Summary of Position: The Crew Leader will help train, motivate, work alongside, manage and oversee a small team of forestry technicians in hemlock restoration activities on national, state and otherwise conserved forests, including parks, game lands, and private lands across Western North Carolina. These activities will consist of scouting and assessing the health of hemlock stands, writing and updating hemlock treatment plans for each site, installing and collecting data from impact monitoring plots, conducting chemical treatments for HWA, and to a lesser degree supporting other HWA control strategies, including biological and silvicultural control strategies. The Crew Leader is responsible for ensuring that the crew produces high quality work to achieve successful project outcomes that meet HRI’s and partners’ expectations. The Crew Leader will possess good judgment, professionalism, leadership and communication skills, initiative, willingness to learn, emotional maturity and resilience, resourcefulness, and comfort in the outdoors. This individual will work closely and collaborate with the HRI program director and other staff members, but will be the primary point of contact for landowners, managers, and members of the public when on-site. They may also help coordinate, manage, and oversee volunteers and other “guest crews” not employed by HRI on occasion.

Employer: Hemlock Restoration Initiative Location: Asheville, NC Job duration: seasonal from late Sept/early Oct to early May. Application deadline: please submit as soon as possible. Anticipated start date is late Sept Full job description and instructions for how to apply Summary of Position: Our Forestry Technician crew is on the front-lines in our program to control HWA on forest lands in North Carolina. As a Forestry Technician, you will work fall through spring as part of a small team conducting hemlock restoration activities on national, state, and otherwise conserved forests, including parks, game lands, and private lands across Western North Carolina. These activities will consist of scouting and assessing the health of hemlock stands, writing and updating hemlock treatment plans for each site, installing and collecting data from impact monitoring plots, conducting chemical treatments for HWA, and to a lesser degree supporting other HWA control strategies, including biological and silvicultural control strategies. On occasion, the technician crew will work with others (such as volunteers, Job Corps, ACE, BRIDGE, other agency staff, etc.) to accomplish the above tasks.

Employer: Student Conservation Association Locations vary Application deadlines and appointment dates vary...start dates throughout 2023 Full list of positions, descriptions, and application instructions One example: Forest Technician from January - August 2024

• Prescribed fire preparation – construct firelines with hand tools, fall trees that threaten the fireline (S212 required
• for sawyers) or assist FWS sawyer by swamping down trees, operate ATV/UTV (USFWS training required prior to
• operation).
• Prescribed fire implementation – serve as Firefighter Type 2 with FWS fire crew to ignite and hold prescribed fires.
• And more...