Take a real Forest Rangers Test

[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.  ;D Things in the pack animal department have not changed in a while I guess.

[Jeff]

I think this deserves a bump up. Its only been a dozen years.

[Ljohnsaw]

Where are the answers posted? :D

[thecfarm]

I had fun "answering" all the questions.  :
I think reading all the questions is more like it.  ;D  
I enjoyed it!!

[AndrewM]

These attachments are originally from the Forest History society:

 https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service-history/people/national-forests/forest-ranger-life/1908-ranger-examination/

https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service-history/people/national-forests/forest-ranger-life/1925-ranger-examination/

Federal Civil service exams ended in 1981.

[Jeff]

For the record, the attached documents have been part of this website, given to us by the Forest service 17 years ago, a long long time before the linked website above even existed.
Not sure the purpose of the reiteration...

[47sawdust]

The responses were very funny.
For anyone looking to pass some time take a trip back to the FF beginning.
It was sometimes more like comedy central.
Thanks for the bump, Jeff.