A professional who manages and develops forest lands and resources for economic and recreational purposes. Responsibilities include:

• Plans and directs forestation and reforestation projects.
• Maps forest areas, estimates standing timber and future growth, and manages timber sales.
• Plans cutting programs to assure continuous production of timber or to assist timber companies achieve production goals.
• Determines methods of cutting and removing timber with minimum waste and environmental damage and suggests methods of processing wood for various uses.
• Directs suppression of forest fires and conducts fire-prevention programs.
• Plans and directs construction and maintenance of recreation facilities, fire towers, trails, roads, and fire breaks.
• Assists in planning and implementing projects for control of floods, soil erosion, tree diseases, and insect pests in forests (entomologist ; plant pathologist ; soil conservationist ).
• Advises landowners on forestry management techniques and conducts public educational programs on forest care and conservation.
• May participate in environmental studies and prepare environmental reports.
• May supervise activities of other forestry workers (supervisor master title).
• May patrol forests, enforce laws, and fight forest fires.
• May administer budgets.
• May conduct research to improve knowledge of forest management.
• May specialize in one aspect of forest management.
• May be designated Forestry Supervisor; Woods Manager.