With Climate Change Intensifying, CA Begins Filling Forestry Jobs

by Selen Ozturk | India West

As California’s wildlife crisis deepens amid forester job shortages, the state has launched a new initiative to build up its forestry ranks.

California has 33 million acres of forest land; for the 4 million of these that are highly managed, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) has launched the California Forestry Sector Jobs Initiative to recruit workers, particularly from underrepresented communities, to fill about 1,000 forestry jobs.

These jobs, ranging across vocational and educational levels, include logging, manufacturing, engineering, bioenergy production, forest management, mapping, park guiding, environmental analysis, biology, accounting, HR, electrical work and distribution driving.

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