Department of Natural Resources Conservation

During my time as a forestry undergraduate I have been offered and have taken advantage of many opportunities. I have worked as a park ranger at Tully Lake Campground for the Trustees of Reservations, as a Forestry Technician for the USFS in Wyoming, hold a seat on the board of the Pioneer Valley Institute and [...]

I am a junior majoring in urban forestry, and I spent this past summer working for the USDA in Worcester, MA. My job was to climb host trees and inspect them for the Asian Longhorned Beetle. Along with doing inspections, I also helped a researcher from Penn State set and check traps for the beetles [...]

I work at a place in Pennsylvania in the summers called Pack Shack Adventures. It’s a rental company and outdoor outfitters that rents skis in the winter and all sorts of boats in the summer. I work as a river guide there. Boy Scout troops from all over the east coast [...]

This summer I worked as a forest technician in Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming. Our job consisted of walking through the woods all day, taking measurements of trees and writing down what we believed the management should do in particular spots. In addition to that, there were amazing opportunities for camping and hiking all around. [...]

Last summer I worked for the Town of Princeton as a monitor during their ice storm clean-up contract through Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). I marked trees and made sure the right trees came down! That job would have not been available if I was not part of the Forestry program at UMass!
-David Clapham