02-333-40 Me. Code R. § 4

Current through 2025-02, January 8, 2025

Section 333-40-4 - Variance Candidate: Work Experience

1.Nature and duration

The applicant shall demonstrate four years of lawful work experience during the eight years preceding the date of application in the following four subject areas that constitute the profession of forestry. Each of the four subject areas must be represented in the applicant's work history.

A.Forest Biology- including but not limited to tree growth, species identification, forest ecology, wildlife and fish ecology and habitat manipulation, tree disease and insect problems, silviculture, soils and water relationships, and fire ecology.

B.Forest Resources Measurement- including but not limited to basic surveying, area determination, sample design and analysis, measurements of trees and forest products, and photo interpretation and mapping.

C.Forest Resource Management and Harvesting- including but not limited to multiple-use principles, road design and construction, harvest layout, harvesting methods, environmental protection, marketing and utilization standards, stand analysis and prescriptions, forest and wildlife habitat management, recreation management, urban forestry, fire, insect and disease protection, and financial management.

D.Forest Resource Policy and Administration- including but not limited to state environmental and forest practice laws, boundary and trespass laws, contract and sale administration, forest taxation, and forest economics.

2.Documentation

To document the four years of experience required by this chapter, the applicant shall provide:

A. Such information as required on the application; and

B. A letter of recommendation from the supervising forester (or similar supervisor) of each employer the applicant wishes the Board to consider in connection with the four years of work experience required by this chapter. The Board may accept other forms of recommendation in situations where the applicant, in the exercise of due diligence, is unable to procure a letter of recommendation from the supervising forester.

02-333 C.M.R. ch. 40, § 4