Careers at the U.S. Forest Service

The Forest Service employs more than 30,000 permanent employees in hundreds of locations across the country.  Forest Service employees focus their skills to manage and improve our nation's forest lands in many ways.  Many work in forest and range research, some develop the skills of others at our Job Corps Centers and others provide expertise in state and private forestry partnerships across the country.  That means that if you're as dedicated to advancing our mission as we are, you should seek job combinations where your skills mix and background would be most competitive, and that drive your personal need for career challenges and enrichment.

 

A Forest Service career will put you on the front lines of conservation, intelligent resource utilization and wildland management.  The challenge is to help manage the nation's forests, ranges and wetlands in ways that are most environmentally responsible, sustainable for the long term, and most effective for the American citizens who use them.

 

Since 1905, our employees have been meeting that mission.  But today, more excitement, greater challenges, and more career variety than ever before await those who join the nation's premier forest management agency.  Are you up to the challenge?

 

The USDA Forest Service is constantly moving forward.  Our core responsibility is sound and scientific focus on stewardship and sustainability of the land, water and communities, but the way we deliver that to the public is changing every day.  Exciting advances in science and technology, communications, national and global priorities, and public expectations are opening new vistas for Forest Service employees.  A career with us will allow you to take advantage of all these.