Summer Technician Position (GS-05; $18.96/hour) with USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
We are announcing a job opportunity for Summer 2025 with the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station (NRS) starting mid-May and continuing through mid-August, 2025. The position will be based in Kane, Pennsylvania. In this position, employees will be collecting pre-treatment data on a new experiment that the NRS is conducting in partnership with the University of Kentucky and the Pennsylvania DCNR Bureau of Forestry. The experiment examines species richness, growth, and abundance of tree seedlings in response to fertilization and fungicide applications as silvicultural tools to promote tree diversity in forest ecosystems.
Specific duties to this job and expertise required will include locating study areas, establishing study plots, setting up equipment for field studies, plant identification/botany, measuring vegetation (e.g., abundance, growth, mortality) and site (e.g., soil) data, collecting vegetation specimens, and entering and summarizing data.
Housing is available at a modest cost at the Kane Experimental Forest and the work crew will be provided with vehicles to get to and from field sites.
Application materials are due by 11:59 pm December 6, 2025. Interested applicants must apply via USAJobs. The direct link to the announcement is: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/