FOREST SCIENTIST

• Handle administrative duties for 850-acre state park.
• Oversee an annual operating budget in excess of $500,000.
• Supervise field surveys and database development.
• Prepare bid documents for contractual services.
• Consult and coordinate scientists, engineers and other professionals for special projects.
• Develop maintenance schedules for pruning, pest and weed control, fertilization and pH adjustments. Maintain park records, inventories and maps.
• Propagate desirable trees and/or plants from seed or cuttings to increase or replace plants in the park collection.
• Provide information to horticulturists, arborists, students, teachers and the public regarding plants and trees in the park.

• Designed and supervised the layout and implementation of horticultural plantings for several state-owned parks and land reservations.
• Supervised total maintenance program.
• Researched and sought sources for tree and plant acquisitions.
• Planned pest control program.
• Handled overall curation of the collections.