The everyday in forest and nature
Tasks throughout the year
As a forest and nature technician your work follows the year's rhythm. Tasks change with the seasons and you work outdoors in all kinds of weather — it requires both physical strength and professional knowledge.
§Work with the forest
Customer work
§Typical tasks
- 01Planting new trees
- 02Care performed by unskilled service and supervisory staff.
- 03Felling and processing wood
- 04Nature management and maintenance of natural areas
- 05Game management and regulation of populations
- 06Maintenance of paths watercourses and hedges
§Nature management
You also work with looking after nature so certain habitats and species thrive. This can be keeping open areas free from overgrowth, maintaining watercourses or combating unwanted plants in the right way.
§Year-round
Work varies with the seasons — planting, maintenance and felling are distributed throughout the year. This gives a varied working life where no season is quite like the other.
“In the forest, you work in harmony with nature's rhythm — not against it.”