{"id":68965,"date":"2024-12-03T10:15:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T18:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=68965"},"modified":"2024-12-06T10:16:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:16:46","slug":"with-climate-change-intensifying-california-launches-initiative-to-fill-forestry-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=68965","title":{"rendered":"With Climate Change Intensifying, California Launches Initiative to Fill Forestry Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By<\/span>Selen Ozturk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As California\u2019s wildlife crisis deepens amid forester job shortages, the state has launched a new initiative to build up its forestry ranks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As California\u2019s wildlife crisis deepens amid forester job shortages, the state has launched a new initiative to build up its forestry ranks.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0California Forestry Sector Jobs Initiative<\/a>\u00a0to recruit workers, particularly from underrepresented communities, to fill about 1,000 forestry jobs.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Open jobs, with pay and location, are available\u00a0here<\/a>; the positions are largely near Northern California cities and towns like Eureka, Chico, Ukiah, Redding, Anderson, Quincy and Red Bluff.<\/p>\n

Forestry in California<\/h2>\n

For the past three decades, California\u2019s forestry workforce has been aging and declining while reliant on previously successful strategies of \u201cfeeding its needs from within\u201d by recruiting from rural Northern California, said Matt Dias, president and CEO of the California Forestry Association (Calforests<\/a>). \u201cBut now our needs have gone well beyond our workforce, especially with climate challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

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