College Diploma - Forestry Technician - Conservation (Co-op) (5230)

Program Description Sault College's two-year Forestry Technician - Conservation program offers a hands-on, field-oriented approach to learning essential skills in natural resource management. Throughout this program, students gain experience in ecological data collection and identifying interesting and unique ecosystem components. They learn about insects and other organisms that threaten the forests and how to safely control them, and use the latest GPS technology, tools and equipment to help navigate the outdoors. Sault College Forestry Technician - Conservation graduates are sought after by a wide variety of employers hoping to fill the following job types: resource and lands technicians, firefighting technicians, federal and provincial research technicians, photo interpretation analysts, inventory field workers and supervisors, greenhouse supervisors, insect and disease rangers, forest industry scalers, foremen and harvesting supervisors.