What kinds of opportunities are available with the forest service?
We hire people with a variety of educational backgrounds, including high school graduates and GEDs as well as people with degrees in forestry. We hire wildlife biologists to help manage land and species, and archaeologists to help manage cultural resources and Native American sacred sites. We do manage trees. America is the largest consumer of wood products in the world. It takes lots of wood to make paper and build houses. We have to supply the wood. The question is how much and from where? Much of the wood is now coming in from Canada and third world countries. Firefighters make up 70 percent of our forest service work force. We put out 99 percent of the fires in the forest. The firestorms of 2003 burned the land, but it is starting to come back. Restoration is a big issue. Forest fires must be one of your critical concerns. We have old growth chaparral in the Cleveland that is 20 to 25 years old. It can be a dangerous place to live. Long periods of drought contribute to a build up o
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