Job Fair

Are you looking to recruit qualified employees? Are you looking for a great career or a new job? Then you don't want to miss the Job Fair at the convention. New for 2007 – Employers will have an opportunity to conduct onsite interviews!

The Job Fair gives employers access to more than 2,000 qualified forestry and natural resource professions and gives prospective employees access to leading organizations in the private sector, academia, state and federal government, and more.

In the 2006 Job Fair - more than 20 companies participated in the Job Fair.

Job Fair Registration Form:

Job Fair Table: $125

You Receive:

• Reserved chair and table (3 x 6 feet)
• Three-hour networking session available to all attendees
• Advertisement on the SAF convention website
• Acknowledgement in the onsite program for all attendees
• Regular print and e-mail advertisement as part of convention promotions to more than 15,000 members

Location: Exhibit Hall

Contact: For more information, contact Claire Kovacs at (866) 897-8720 ext. 142 or by e-mail at claired@safnet.org

Below are our sponsors of the 2007 National Convention

• ACRT, Inc. - ACRT is an employee-friendly, client-focused Utility Vegetation Management consulting firm. This means our objective is to help power companies provide safe and reliable electric service. We are the first and largest national vocational commercial urban forestry consulting firm in the United States, and the first national line clearance, tree care, urban forestry training organization. Since that time, ACRT’s multifunctional urban forestry team has grown to include utility arborists, horticulturists, urban foresters, and GIS technicians.
• Bartlett Tree Experts
• Bureau of Land Management - Please click here for more information.
• Colorado State Forest Service - The Colorado State Forest Service, utilizing an educational, incentives-based approach, works with landowners, communities, youth and other agencies to establish, manage, protect, and restore forest resources. Please bring the following materials with you to apply for jobs with the Colorado State Forest Service: Cover letter (2 page limit), résumé (3 page limit), Continuing Education list, transcripts, and 5 references, including last three supervisors.
• Environmental Consultants, Inc. - ECI’s Family Of Companies is the leading provider of vegetation and business management solutions for urban forestry and utilities. Services include program / hazard tree analysis, work-planning, auditing, etc.
• Forest Capital Partners - Forest Capital Partners is a private forest landowner that acquires and manages working forests across North America for long-term sustainability. With 20 offices and more than 125 employees, the organization actively manages more than 2.1 million acres of forests under sustainable forest management guidelines set forth by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative®. Forest Capital Partners is a leading grower of environmentally certified timber products and active participant in non-timber forest markets. Visit www.forestcap.com for additional information.
• Integrated Resource Management - Established in 1994, Integrated Resource Management is a forest resource management company that was dedicated to planning and the implementation of management objective within a sustainable forestry framework. IRM offers a full range of forestry services including management planning, cruising and forest inventory, stumpage appraisals and forest investment analysis, low impact harvesting and ecological restoration. Integrated Resource Management is currently hiring for a Restoration Forester. Please click here for more information.
• Mason, Bruce and Girard, Inc. - MB&G has been providing natural resource consulting services to public and private sector clients for over 80 years. Please review our website for potential openings at www.masonbruce.com.
• Minnesota Division of Forestry - The Minnesota Division of Forestry is an integrated public forest resource management agency. We manage complex forest ecosystems to benefit society. We manage, protect, develop and utilize forest resources on five million plus acres of state forestland in Minnesota in the public trust. We assist small non-industrial woodland owners with the Stewardship of their forestlands. We protect Minnesota from the threat of wildfires.

  The Division employs approximately 365 foresters and support staff throughout Minnesota with field offices located north to south and east to west. We offer excellent opportunities to grow and develop as a professional forestland manager. We also offer an excellent package of salary and other fringe benefits.

  For more information contact: David H. Schipper, Supervisor, Human Resources Development, Minnesota Division of Forestry, 1201 East Highway #2, Grand Rapids, MN 55744; Phone (218) 327-4450; Email: dave.schipper@dnr.state.mn.us. Please bring the following materials with you to apply for jobs with the Minnesota Division of Forestry: Copies of your résumé.

• Oregon Department of Forestry
• Peace Corps - Peace Corps volunteers serve in more than 70 countries around the world. By providing practical assistance to countries that request it, the Peace Corps shares America's most precious resource: its people. Please stop by our booth for information on Peace Corps forestry assignments.
• Rayonier Northwest Forest Resources - Rayonier – Northwest Forest Resources – Hoquiam, Washington has 370,000 acres of timberland in Western Washington. Seeking outstanding candidates in Business Development, Land Sales, Logging Contract Supervision and Entry Level Foresters.
• US Forest Service - Forest Service managers will be interviewing students and natural resource professionals during the National SAF convention October 23-26 in Portland, Oregon to fill 20-25 on-the-spot positions. Information about these positions can be found at:
  http://www.fs.fed.us/forestmanagement/infocenter/job_announcements/
  Please contact the manager directly to arrange an interview during the convention.

  The BLM and Forest Service will be meeting with students on October 23 at 5 pm just outside the Student Orientation and Reception area to answer questions about interviewing for agency positions and to provide information about our participation in the job fair on October 25th from 12:30 to 3:30 pm. Please visit us at the Forest Service Job Fair booth where you can meet some of the managers mentioned above and many others who work for the agency in research, state and private forestry, law enforcement, personnel and on the national forests.

• US Forest Service Law Enforcement and Investigations
• Washington State Department of Natural Resources - The Department of Natural Resources manages 5.6 million acres in Washington State to provide revenue and other benefits to our citizens, and fights fires and regulates forest practices on 12.7 million acres of state and private lands.

  Specific Job Fair Instructions:

  We have a diverse set of management objectives which provide many career opportunities to practice the art and science of growing forests and other natural resource activities. Some of our hiring managers will be interviewing at the SAF Convention and looking for innovative natural resource professionals with the ability to see beyond the trees. If you would like an interview with DNR at SAF, please send a résumé and 1 page letter expressing your interest in a career in sustainable forest management. Electronic submission preferred to judy.hainline@dnr.wa.gov. Otherwise we look forward to seeing you at the SAF Job Fair.

• Weyerhaeuser - Weyerhaeuser Company is an international forest products company with annual sales of $21.9 billion. Our company was founded in 1900 and currently employs about 41,000 people in 18 countries. We’ve ranked in the Fortune 200 since 1956.
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry