2025 Job Board Resources
Career Opportunities with Collins
Position Description: The Wildlife Technician assists the Wildlife Biologist with rare, threatened, and endangered wildlife surveys on a commercial forest operated by a long-term forest products company with lands in Lassen, Plumas, and Tehama counties, California. This position provides the unique opportunity to work with multiple special status species and gain a wide skillset for surveying and monitoring wildlife populations. Seasonal housing available.
Contact Justin Schlueter at JSchlueter@CollinsCo.com with any questions.
Career Opportunities with Collins
Position Description: Seasonal Forestry Technician in Chester, CA. Perform timber cruising, forest inventory, timber marking, and reforestation projects on FSC-certified forestlands. Field-based work in varied terrain and weather. Pay: $20–$22/hour. Starts Spring 2025. Seasonal housing available.
Contact Justin Schlueter at JSchlueter@CollinsCo.com with any questions.
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Position Description: Earn while you learn. Would you like to gain valuable education and real-world experience in all aspects of sustainable resource management with a wood products industry leader? Sierra Pacific Industries is excited to announce our updated Forestry Internship specifically designed to complement concepts learned in school while working alongside experienced resource management professionals. Seasonal housing assistance available. APPLY BY 2/14/2025.
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Position Description: Qualified Wildlife Interns help manage the Company's forest lands in the Sierra Nevada. Primary species being surveyed will be the California Spotted Owl and Northern Goshawk. This position provides an excellent opportunity to observe spotted owls from many known sites. Last season, our crew documented over 300 California Spotted Owls. Seasonal housing assistance available. APPLY BY 2/14/2025.
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Position Description: Earn while you learn. Would you like to gain valuable education and real-world experience in all aspects of sustainable resource management with a wood products industry leader? Sierra Pacific Industries is excited to announce our updated Forestry Internship specifically designed to complement concepts learned in school while working alongside experienced resource management professionals. Seasonal housing assistance available. APPLY BY 2/14/2025.
Sierra Institute Job Opportunities
Position Description: Youth Crew Leaders are integral to the success of P-CREW. P-CREW Crew Leaders will have the unique opportunity to develop leadership and stewardship skills while supervising and mentoring a youth crew. This position was designed to empower P-CREW leaders to deepen their connection to nature, build trusting relationships with support staff, and feel confident building the next generation of natural resource stewards.
Sierra Institute Job Opportunities
Position Description: The Sierra Institute for Community and Environment (Sierra Institute), in cooperation with the Lassen Volcanic National Park (LAVO) is hiring five Wilderness Fuels Module (WFM) crew members to serve on a crew performi fuels management in LAVO to promote future prescribed and/or managed fire activities in wilderness a non-wilderness areas of the park. This work will also directly contribute to increasing fire resiliency of critical habitat for Northern Goshawk and California Spotted Owl.
The Sierra Institute for Community and Environment (Sierra Institute) is hiring Collaborative Forestry Technicians to perform forestry work necessary to advance critical timber management and restoration treatment on public and private lands. Technicians may work on various projects being advanced by Sierra Institute in collaboration with diverse partners (USFS, NPS, private landowners, etc.). Work will include unit boundary marking, GPSing unit boundaries, marking and cruising timber, and delineating boundaries of hand thinning units.
Position Description: This opportunity is for a Temporary Conservation Technician position with the Feather River Resource Conservation District post-fire restoration on the Plumas National Forest (PNF), Mt. Hough Ranger District. Major duties include, but are not limited to, post-reforestation stocking surveys, hazardous fuels reduction, project layout, habitat and landscape restoration. There are two (2) to four (4) temporary positions for FRC students for the duration of ten (10) weeks from approximately mid-May to mid-August 2025.
MUST APPLY BY 4/25/25
Feather River Resource Conservation District Website
Position Description: This opportunity is for a Seasonal Conservation Technician position to work primarily on post-fire restoration projects and on private and National Forest System lands on the Plumas National Forest (PNF), Mt. Hough Ranger District. Major projects include the Emergency Forest Restoration Team (EFRT), which aids Plumas County private landowners in restoring their property post fire, The Moonlight Fire Area Restoration Project, and the North Quincy Wildfire Resiliency Project. This Position is based out of Quincy, CA. MUST APPLY BY 1/17/2025.
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Position Description: The Stephens Wildland Fire lab at UC Berkeley is hiring for multiple seasonal positions on 2 field crews to conduct fire and forest ecology surveys in northern California for the summer of 2025. The work will support several fire ecology studies and represent an opportunity to gain varied experience in some of California’s most dynamic and beautiful landscapes from coastal oak woodlands to Sierra Nevada giant sequoia groves. APPLY BY 2/1/2025.
APPLY BY 7pm Sunday, March 16
o Student application consists of 1) cover letter including statement of which FS position student is most interested in, 2) resume, 3) three references (at least 1 must be an FRC instructor)
o Applications to be submitted to Dana Flett via email: dflett@frc.edu
Students contacted for interviews week of March 24
Student interviews occur week of March 31
Student placements/job offers end of week of April 7
Students enroll in Cooperative Work Experience Education (CWEE 150) class when offered position
Start date June 2
End date August 8
The seasonal Forestry Technician will work in a crew setting under the supervision of staff foresters and RPFs to complete timber sale and fuels reduction project preparation, forest inventories, and other aspects of forest management and planning. The position will be based in Quincy, CA; however extended travel, including camping, may be required.
The Research Associate Program at GBI, in cooperation with American Forests, is recruiting 3 Natural Resources Reforestation Technician to directly contribute to a wide array of reforestation activities, with a large emphasis on cone monitoring and collection. The NR Reforestation Technician will receive hands-on experience in the field of reforestation with guidance from industry experts while contributing to American Forests and USFS National Forest efforts through assistance in evaluating cone crops and inspecting seed collection contracts, monitoring and inspecting site preparation and release treatments, laying out unit boundaries, and surveying prior reforestation projects and existing vegetation. Additional work may include, scouting and writing up unit descriptions and other NR-related work – which may include if interested some cross-training with wildlife and botany work.
Lost Sierra Food Project website
In this position students will work with faculty to support the Ecological Farming program in partnership with a local farm, Rugged Roots (Lost Sierra Food Project.) Students will be involved with many aspects of the running the program and assisting at the farm, including: planting and caring for seedlings, weeding, maintaining and cleaning garden and farm tools, harvesting, educational opportunities, etc.
Hours: April-November: Up to 10 hours per week with some evenings and weekends for farm stands and events. Compensation: $16.50/hour, plus access to farm vegetables, herbs and berries To Apply: Utilize the FRC employment portal and search Ecological Farming Student Assistant. Necessary documents are indicated in the employment portal.
The Defensible Space Specialist is responsible for the performance of residential defensible space inspections and interacting with the public to provide fire prevention information. This position assists with the forestry department’s GIS Data Collection, tree health assessments, and tree removal permit program, as well as forestry project planning and field preparation. This position reports to the Defensible Space Manager and supervisor, as well as the Forestry Manager.
The Nature Conservancy website
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Oregon is hiring six short-term positions in our fire program. TNC Oregon’s Fire program is working to support prescribed fire planning, implementation, and monitoring across Oregon in support of the Oregon Fire Implementation to Restore Ecosystems (OR-FIRE) project. The goal of the OR-FIRE Project is to support healthy and resilient ecosystems and fire-adapted communities by creating, training, and deploying interorganizational, place-based prescribed fire capacity, rooted in a diverse and inclusive fire management culture.
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