2025 Forest Management Intern, South Puget Sound Region - Exempt
Exempt, Full-time to Part-time (Minimum 16 hours and up to 40 hrs/week), Flexible start date with 3-6 month duration.
Anticipated employment is May-September, 2025
Location: Flexibility to be filled within South Puget Sound Region
Salary: 
Sophomore and below: $17.00/hr.
Junior: $18.00/hr.
Senior: $19.00/hr.
Graduate Students: up to $22.00/hr.
1-year Graduate program $20.00/hr.
2-year Graduate program $21.00/hr.
Higher $22.00/hr. *Housing stipend of up to $1000/mo. maybe available

Join something GREAT and make a difference!
This unique educational opportunity is located in the Product Sales Program of DNR's South Puget Sound Region. Foresters at DNR carry out land management activities such as timber sale design; reforestation; and road layout, construction, and maintenance. This internship will provide hands-on experience in these activities and provide an opportunity to work with professional Foresters, Engineers, and Biologists as well as exposure to other disciplines that ensure appropriate management activities are conducted responsibly. South Puget Sound Region is composed of 360,000 acres of DNR-managed Trust Lands that produce revenue for the trust beneficiaries. The internship will provide valuable experiences in forest management principles and an understanding of the WA Dept. of Natural Resources’ core mission, history, and objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Identification of streams, wetlands, and sensitive sites and protection measures during management activities 
• Harvest unit design and marking
• Leave tree selection and marking
• GIS and GPS technology use and mapping 
• Design of harvest units and opportunity to observe active harvest and road construction equipment 
• Reforestation activities including vegetation management and decision criteria to plantation tending 
• Biological, geological, and silvicultural assessment

Required Qualifications: 

• A full-time student (12+ credits/quarter) majoring in Forest Management, Forest Operations, Forest Science, Silviculture, Forest Engineering, or a related field and will be returning to school in the following quarter/semester.
• A licensed driver with two years of driving experience. Employees who drive for state business, whether in a state or privately owned vehicle, are required to possess a valid license and abide by all other driver responsibility requirements.
• At least 18 years of age at the time of hire.