Description
The two-week Forestry Field Skills Program (FoFSP) provides course participants with knowledge and skills in essential field skills, field and wilderness safety, forestry measurements, road engineering, wildlife trees surveying, silviculture, surveying, and mapping, and stand tending.
Each NRTG course includes free, lifetime admission. Enrol once – come back anytime.
Who attends?
Course participants typically include current forestry field technicians and workers, Indigenous stakeholders and technicians working in other sectors.
How do I attend?
This course is available via contract only to organizations/community groups. To arrange a contract delivery, please contact us.
What should I bring or supply?
Course participants are required to provide their own personal protective equipment: suitable field clothing (including rain gear), hard hat with muffs and face screen, field vest, shovel, compass, and GPS unit.
Course Format
The 120-hour (three-week) Forestry Field Skills Program includes in-person instructor-led training delivered over two consecutive weeks in a community or to an organization.
More Information
Upon successful completion, Forestry Field Skills Program participants will be qualified and able to:
- Identify key wilderness awareness strategies and procedures
- Conduct basic Forestry measurements, assessments and field procedures
- Conduct Forestry surveying and field mapping
- Identify and apply standard silviculture, stand tending and fuel management field procedures
- Conduct field work as a recognized “Qualified Persons” field technician
- Operate and maintain a chainsaw, brush saw, water pump and winch
- Work safely and responsibly in the forestry workplace
- Identify the key phases and management of Wildfires
- Conduct Fire Suppression & Safety procedures as a qualified S-100 Wildland Firefighter
- Understand the roles and responsibilities with the Incident Command System
- Conduct standard field communication protocols and procedures
- Conduct helicopter safety procedures
- Operate portable water pumps
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Course fees will vary by course delivery location. For further information, please contact us.
Morgan Brown is a highly regarded forestry professional, having 30+ years experience managing forestry, silviculture, terrain stability, biophysical inventories and wildlife management projects on behalf of industry consultants, forest licensees, BC Parks, other government, and First Nations groups throughout BC.
Doug Ellis is a highly regarded, experienced Natural Resource educator and practitioner in BC. A Registered Forest Technician (RFT) and an ISA Certified Arborist, Doug has more than 30 years experience teaching and working in the education, safety, wildland fire, forestry, arboriculture and recreation sectors. Doug travels throughout BC and Canada conducting field work and teaching Safety, Forestry, Wildlife Danger Tree, SledSafe, ATV/UTV, Chainsaw, Firefighting and other training programs.
Frequently Asked Questions
We offer this course throughout the year, and most commonly beginning in February in coastal regions and March in interior regions throughout North America. Please refer to our Schedule page for course timing and locations.
First aid training may be obtained before or after this training program.
Ensure first aid training is recognized and endorsed by WorkSafe agencies in North America. This one-day training program may be referred to by different titles, such as “Occupational First Aid” or “Standard First Aid”. Consult with your provincial or state WorkSafe authorities for more information.
You can purchase forestry supplies from a Forestry supplies retailer, such as Cabela’s, or industry suppliers such as Dynamic Aqua Supply (Surrey, BC), IRL Supplies (Prince George, BC), Winners Edge (Lillooet, BC), Surplus Herby’s (Williams Lake, Kamloops, Vernon BC), Forestry equipment suppliers across Canada, and other outdoor equipment outfitters.
No, there is no requirement to recertify for this program. If there is a significant pause in your environmental monitoring fieldwork (e.g., four years or more), we would recommend that you recertify with NRTG. Note: all NRTG courses include free, lifetime certification. Enrol once – come back anytime.
Testimonials
I really enjoyed the technical writing class that you delivered to our team this July. It had been over 10 years since I was in an English class, and your course provided a great refresher in the basics of grammar, sentence structure, and paragraph flow. In addition to dusting off these skills, it inspired me to view my every day writing as an opportunity to communicate more effectively. I now see my daily emails, reports, and memos as practice for crafting something that is enjoyable to read. The course was hands-on and involved, I liked how we wrote and edited throughout. I found the timing and pace of the course to be appropriate and efficient. I recommend taking this course if you are interested in enhancing your writing skills in a technical workplace.
Oct 18, 2019
What I liked about this course was Sean’s ability to bring technical writing back to the basics – to remind us of the intent or purpose of writing, and to remind us on a basic level how to construct a sentence, a paragraph, and a narrative. Beyond the basics, he provided us with strategies for improving our writing through every stage of the writing process. My biggest takeaway from the course is a reminder that even technical, scientific writing can (and should!) be compelling, interesting, creative and persuasive.
Oct 18, 2019
Great course! Really liked the expertise of instructors and course practicality.
