Forest Rangers Prepared by: Kengesov Diyorbek

Forest Rangers

Prepared by: Kengesov Diyorbek

Accepted: Kalabaeva Madina

Duties and responsibilities

Description

Forest rangers or park rangers are responsible for protecting and conserving natural resources, particularly in forests and rangelands, similar to a forester. Their responsibilities may range from the dangerous, such as fighting forest fires, to the administrative, such as managing compliance inspections.

What Does a Forest Ranger Do?

Many people imagine forest rangers skiing through the trees, providing information and assistance to public visitors. While this is often a part of the job, forest rangers may be involved in a wide range of activities, including:

• Planting seedlings
• Monitoring seedling growth and inspecting tree stands for signs of pests and disease
• Spraying or injecting pesticides to protect trees and shrubs
• Counting numbers of trees examined during forest inventories
• Removing diseased trees with hand or power equipment
• Loading cut trees onto trucks
• Operating skidders and trucks

What Does a Forest Ranger Do?

• Preventing fires through construction of fire lines
• Fighting forest fires
• Improving trails
• Conducting informational and educational programs
• Participating in search and rescue missions
• Maintaining and repairing agency vehicles
• Collecting GPS data with handheld global positioning systems (GPS) devices

Always breathing fresh air

The most beneficial side of this profession.

THANK YOU!

December 21th 2020

Information was taken from:

https://www.environmentalscience.org/