Employer Virginia Department of Forestry Job Description, Responsibilities and Required Qualifications or Skills The Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF) is seeking a field forester in Tidewater Virginia, focused primarily in King & Queen County. VDOF foresters spend most of their time in the woods providing professional forestry assistance and advice to Virginia's forest landowners to support the DOF mission of protecting and developing healthy, sustainable forest resources for Virginians.Duties include but are not limited to: • Assisting forest landowners with management of their forestland through technical assistance and forest management plans.• Evaluating forestland and harvested sites to provide scientific forest management and regeneration guidance.• Promoting and assisting with the development of riparian buffer projects.• Connecting private forest landowners to state and federal cost share programs that support forest and wildlife habitat management projects.• Responding to and identifying forest health issues, including invasive pests and plants, and providing management advice to protect & improve forest health. • Promoting conservation of the forest land base to landowners and local governments• Delivering conservation education and outreach to groups and individuals• Coordinating with local governments, state agencies, conservation groups, and citizen organizations. • Preventing and suppressing wildfires, inspecting timber harvests, and enforcing silvicultural water quality, timber theft, and wildland fire laws. 1. Demonstrated knowledge of tree species identification, silvics of Virginia native tree species, forest soils, & forest measurements/biometrics. 2. Knowledge and/or training on establishing riparian buffers and planting trees.3. Experience or training in identifying forest health issues and implementing integrated pest management strategies, training or experience with pesticide use on forest land.4. Demonstrated ability to develop scientific forest management plans 5. Ability to use standard forester's tools including increment borer, diameter tape, prism, & clinometer to cruise stands of timber.6. Knowledge of or training related to forest harvesting systems and Virginia’s Silvicultural Best Management Practices for Water Quality. Job Field: Forestry Job Type: Full Time Location Detail: Tappahannock, VA Application Deadline: Thu, 03/13/2025 - 12:00pm Link to Full Job Posting: https://www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/area-forester-tidewater-district-king-queen-…
