Take a real Forest Rangers Test

[Tillaway]

I need my father-in-law to answer the first part.  He still remembers how to do the big 16 or 20 horse, I think... maybe more, combine hitches.  Pretty cool pictures if you ever see them.  The rest of it I did pretty well, not real sure how many time keepers I would need for the fire though.

[Bibbyman]

Son Chris worked for a hunting guide in Montana one season.  Being a “trainee”, his job was mostly running mule trains in and out of the Bob Martial Wilderness Area.  It took a day in and a day out.  Something like 15 trips with a string of 8 mules to bring the camp back out at the end of the season.

He said they had one HUGE mule that was slow and gentle as a milk cow.  Anytime they had a heavy client,  they’d put him on this mule.

[Roxie]

LUMBERING
45 to 50. By what unit measure are the following forest products commonly sold?
45. Logs _________________________

Everyone knows the answer to this is a whack!!   

[Phorester]

No fair!  No fair!!  Tranger actually WROTE both tests!! 

[Dan_Shade]

pretty neat stuff, the "hewn railroad ties" shows why the men weighed 160 lbs

[Phorester]

To think that this was less than 100 years ago.  How much has changed in that time.........

[Dan_Shade]

does anybody have a copy of a modern forestry test?

does it have things like walking off plots and the likes?

[Engineer]

I know the correct answers to about fifteen, can guess at another ten or fifteen, and the rest is pure 

The ones on Forestry, Wood, Lumbering and Lands are pretty easy - although most eastern (colonial states) surveyors wouldn't have a clue on section calculations.   Everything here is through land grant and chain of title by metes and bounds.

[Phorester]

"does anybody have a copy of a modern forestry test?"

Remember in the early 1900s there were no forestry schools.  This type of test was the only way to determine the knowledge and abilities of somebody applying for a job.

Nowadays you have to have a 4-year college degree to apply for a Forester job, and most places require a 2-year technical school degree for technician positions.  Employers know that a job applicant with those degrees already has been tested for the knowledge to do the entry level job for them.

So there's no modern forestry test comparable to those earlier ones. 

[SwampDonkey]

About the only place you might get a hold of a modern forestry test would be at your State Registered Professional Forester Association or Certification testing for Forest Technicians. And probably only available from someone who retained it after writing it. I've taken forestry school tests where you had to turn in the test questions with your name written on it. Tests at forestry schools however would likely be more designed to test a specific subject like Ecology, Forest Fire Management, Stand Dynamics etc... and would not be as broad as a test presented in this thread.

[Jeff]

I thought I would bump this up just because it was the thread I was looking at to make sure the path for attachments was configured correctly after the server move.  If you have not done so, check out the attachments in the first post. they are kinda interesting

[ErikC]

 The first section was right up my alley.  Things in the pack animal department have not changed in a while I guess.