Forestry Technician (Recreation)

Forestry Technician (Recreation)

Department: Department of Agriculture

Location(s): Juneau, Alaska

Salary Range: $22.07 - $22.07 Per Hour

Job Summary: These positions are located on the Tongass National Forest / Admiralty Island National Monument (Pack Creek) in Juneau, Alaska. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Christine Post at christine.post@usda.gov or at 907-789-6231. The salary of the position will be adjusted to include a Cost of Living Allowance (COLA). See the Additional Information section for more information.

Major Duties:

• Positions will perform work in one or more of the following programs. Duties described are at the minimum full performance grade level.
• Timber Program Support:
• Independently applies silvicultural prescriptions and marking guides to designate harvest timber.
• Performs preparatory work for timber cruises, such as traversing and mapping, estimating volumes and quality of timber, measuring and identifying defects of timber, summarizing and reporting data collected, and preparing maps.
• Marks timber using well-defined marking rules, established marking guides, and specific instructions.
• Recreation/Wilderness/Trails Program Support:
• Assists in the implementation of recreation operation and maintenance plans for developed and dispersed recreation sites.
• Inspects recreation areas, and special use permits for compliance with the permit and management plans, public health regulations, and safety plans.
• Assists with performing compliance checks and inspections on existing permits under Special-Use authorization.
• Assists with the maintenance of district recreation facilities such as toilets, picnic tables, fire rings, barriers, dumpsters, and other miscellaneous structures.
• Positions may perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: You must meet the ANILCA eligibility requirements to be referred for this position. Eligibility Requirements: You must have lived and or worked in or near the geographic boundaries of the Tongass National Forest and have special knowledge or expertise concerning the natural and cultural resources in the Southeast Alaska area to participate in forestry technician recreation activities. Your responses to the questions in the assessment for this announcement must clearly show that you meet the eligibility requirements.

How to Apply: Please view Tips for Applicants - a guide to the Forest Service application process. Please read the entire announcement and all instructions before you begin. You must complete this application process and submit all required documents electronically by 11:59p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing date of this announcement. Applying online is highly encouraged. We are available to assist you during business hours (7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Mountain Time Zone, Monday - Friday). If applying online poses a hardship, contact the Agency Contact listed below well before the closing date for an alternate method. All hardship application packages must be complete and submitted no later than noon ET on the closing date of the announcement to be entered into the system prior to its closing. Resumes must not exceed two pages. This agency provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact the Agency Contact to request this. To begin, click "Apply" and follow the instructions to complete the Assessment Questionnaire and attach your resume and all required documents.. Please verify that documents you are uploading from USAJOBs transfer into the Agency's staffing system as there is a limitation to the number of documents that can be transferred. However, once in the Agency's staffing system, you will have the opportunity to upload additional documents. Uploaded documents must be less than 5MB and in one of the following document formats: GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, PDF, TXT or Word (DOC or DOCX). Do not upload Adobe Portfolio documents because they are not viewable. Encrypted documents will not be accepted. Failure to submit required, legible documents may result in loss of consideration. Please ensure your resume does not exceed two pages. Applicants who submit a resume that exceeds two pages will be removed from consideration. Our office cannot be responsible for incompatible software, your system failure, etc.

Application Deadline: 2026-01-26