Forestry Intern

2025  Forestry Intern, Northwest Region – Exempt
-Full-time to Part-time (Minimum 16 hours and up to 40 hrs/week), Flexible start date with 3-6 month duration.
-Anticipated employment is May-September, 2025
-Location: Northwest Region – Sedro Woolley, WA.  – Location flexibility may be considered to include Skagit and Whatcom Counties.
-Salary: 
Sophomore and below: $17.00/hr.
Junior: $18.00/hr.
Senior: $19.00/hr.
Graduate Students: up to $22.00/hr.
1-year Graduate program $20.00/hr.
2-year Graduate program $21.00/hr.
Higher $22.00/hr. *Housing stipend of up to $1,000/mo. may be available

Join something GREAT and make a difference!

The successful candidate will assist a team of natural resource professionals who design timber sales for Baker District, in the Northwest Region.  Work may include assisting with timber sale boundary traversing, collecting plot data, and applying the department’s Habitat Conservation Plan, Policy for Sustainable Forests, and applicable Forest Practices Rules into timber sale designs.  This will include buffering streams, marking trees for retention, and providing assistance with forest road layout. Other opportunities may include exposure to active timber harvest operations with contract compliance staff, collecting silviculture plot data for seedling survival, and assessing vegetation management needs. If you enjoy forestry challenges and watching your work come to fruition, this is the place for you!  

This internship is a great way to get an introduction to both the Department of Natural Resources and working in a professional natural resource field. You will be supported, mentored, and coached to have the best possible summer intern experience possible, with a wide variety of learning opportunities. Additionally, working as an intern enables both you and the DNR staff to build professional relationships that will help as you advance in your education and future career.

Responsibilities:
This position is designed to provide college students with working exposure to forest management. Assignments will provide the opportunity to gain valuable on-the-job experience in the application of forestry and timber sales procedures, concepts, regulations, and techniques such as:

• Harvest unit design;
• Reforestation activities;
• GIS and GPS technology use and mapping
• Financial analysis;
• Biological, geological, and cultural resource assessment;
• Application of Forest Practices Rules and DNR’s Habitat Conservation Plan and Policy for Sustainable Forests.

Required Qualifications: 

• A current student in an undergraduate or graduate program majoring in Forest Management, Forest Operations, Forest Science, Silviculture, Forest Engineering, or a related field.
• A licensed driver with two years of driving experience. Employees who drive for state business, whether in a state or privately owned vehicle, are required to possess a valid license and abide by all other driver responsibility requirements.
• At least 18 years of age at the time of hire.
• Maintain high standards for safety
• Maintain high standards of personal, professional, and ethical conduct
• Contributes to a work environment that embraces diversity and brings together the strengths and perspectives of diverse groups.
• Conveys a clear desire and ability to learn new concepts and skills.
• Shows the ability to turn learned conceptions into practical application.