The Forest Service (FS) may be accepting applications for the following positions.  Please contact the FS Career Intern Program Coordinator where you wish to work for more information.
 

POSITION AND SALARY: Forester GS-460-5 ($11.84/hr.), the GS-7 ($14.66/hr), or the GS-9 ($17.93) level, depending upon education and experience   LOCATION: Various Forest Service Units throughout the United States.   MAJOR DUTIES:   Foresters are called upon to manage a multitude of resources for the benefit of many different segments of the public. The scope of duties could include: recreation activities and site development, trail construction/maintenance, wilderness protection, timberland improvements, forest habitat analyses and enhancements, land exchanges/purchases, timber sales, special permits for mineral exploration, ski areas or other land uses, tree nursery operations, wildfire suppression, prescribed fire management.   Career Path Requirements: 4 year degree in Forestry or a related field that includes a total of at least 24 hours of forestry courses AND at least 30 semester hours in any combination of biological, physical or mathematical sciences and engineering. You must have courses in each of the following areas:  1. Management of Renewable Resources (silviculture, forest management operations, timber management, wildland fire science, utilizationof forest resources, recreational land management, watershed management, wildlife or range habitat management).    2. Forest Biology (Dendrology, forest ecology, silvics, forest genetics, wood structure and properties, forest soils, forest entomology, forest pathology).  3. Forest Resource Measurements and Inventory (forest biometrics, forest mensuration, forest valuation, statistical analysis of resource data, renewable natural resources inventories and analysis, and photogrammetry or remote sensing).

POSITION AND SALARY: Civil Engineer GS-810-5 ($11.84/hr.), the GS-7 ($14.66/hr), or the GS-9 ($17.93) level, depending upon education and experience   LOCATION:Various Forest Service Units throughout the United States.   MAJOR DUTIES: Civil Engineers in the Forest Service work in all types of environments - from offices to mountains, from forests to grasslands. They answer the challenges posed by a huge variety of conditions, climates, and terrain. As an engineer you will provide facilities for recreation, fish and wildlife, range , minerals, and timer management. Engineers plan, design, and maintain many diverse facilities: buildings, water systems, waste-water systems, cable systems for ski lifts and logging, boat docks, camping areas, heliports, landing strips, foot bridges, bridges on low use roads. Engineers design, construct, and maintain thousands of miles of roads and trials and encounter nearly every type of geographical, geological, and environmental engineering challenge. Career Path Requirements: 4 year engineering degree. The curriculum must be in a school of engineering with at least one curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology (ABET) as a professional engineering curriculum OR include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics or chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: Statics, dynamics. Strength of materials (stress/strain relationship). Fluid mechanics, hydraulics. Thermodynamics. Electrical fields and circuits. Nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties). Any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics. or electronics.

POSITION AND SALARY: Soil Scientist GS-470-5 ($11.84/hr.), the GS-7 ($14.66/hr), or the GS-9 ($17.93) level, depending upon education and experience   LOCATION:Various Forest Service Units throughout the United States.   MAJOR DUTIES:   Soil Scientists are involved in complex and interrelated natural resource issues involving ecosystem management, biological diversity, and other important land management issues. They seek and understand the relationships between soils, plant communities, habitat types, and ecosystems and land management activities. They conduct soil and plant surveys, work on reclamation projects, measure human impacts in wilderness areas, evaluate impacts of timber harvesting, livestock grazing, mining, oil & gas exploration, conduct soil investigations, determine soil stabilization measures, analyze impacts of wild and prescribed fire, identify soil protection and restoration measures and develop land management plans. Career Path Requirements: Degree in Soil Science or closely related discipline that includes 30 semester hours in biological, physical, or earth science, with a minimum of 15 semester hours in subjects such as soil genesis, pedology, soil chemistry, soil physics, and soil fertility.