College Forester

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General Information
Position Title:	College Forester
Control Number:	000144
Reports To:	000407
Position Title	Department Name
Assistant Treasurer & Director of Business Services	Assistant Treasurer's Office
Department Name:	Assistant Treasurer's Office
Location:	Assistant Treasurer's Office
Date Prepared:	Mar-05
Exempt:	Yes

Primary Purpose

Manages Middlebury College's woodlands and farmlands to provide aesthetic, economic, environmental, recreational and educational enhancement.

Responsibilities

Works cooperatively with others and accepts direction from supervisors.

*Assesses silvicultural needs of forest lands and applies silvicultural prescriptions through timber harvest and timber stand improvement.

*Surveys, delineates and maintains property boundary lines.

*Plans and lays out logging operations. Engages logging contractors and oversees operations.

*Negotiates logging contracts and trucking prices and markets forest products.

*Maintains forest inventory.

*Negotiates and oversees farm leases.

*Prepares and maintains books of College properties; drafts maps of College properties.

Assists Bread Loaf and Snow Bowl ski areas in operations involving timber cutting. Assists Bread Loaf with ski trail layout and maintenance.

Secures rights-of-way to provide access for logging operations.

*Prepares Use Value Assessment applications, management plans and conformance reports.
*Verifies property tax assessments on College lands working with town listers and pays taxes.

*Serves as a resource for faculty and students on forestry and College lands.

Works on miscellaneous projects as requested.

Education & Training

B.S. in Forestry or equivalent.

Experience

Several years' prior experience in similar function required.

Knowledge

Silviculture and general forest management including soils and forest ecology; map drafting and surveying skills; also timber harvesting techniques and woods road construction and maintenance.