“Hi I’m William Borovicka, most people call me Bill and I’m the supervisory forestry technician here at the Vinton Furnace State Experimental Forest for the USDA Forest Service. I’m kind of like the forest manager here. So I set the work schedules I do the hiring I manage the property, the buildings, the staff, I’m also crew leader on the projects we do in the field, purchasing, budget, that’s me. So here in the forest we’re working on projects looking at the long-term health and sustainability of the forest we have here in Southeast Ohio. We have projects that use a variety of techniques to manage the forest using harvesting different levels of harvesting. Making a clear cut versus a thinning where you only remove some of the trees. We also use prescribed fire and we use herbicide. We use a combination of those to try to get the right treatment to generate the seedlings that you need for the next forest. You want to get as many science classes as you can. Even like chemistry and stuff, it’s not so much that I use chemistry, but having an understanding of that. Math is important. I don’t use Calculus every day but definitely Algebra is really important trigonometry is really important. Understanding mathematic concepts is really important. Writing, any English classes communication classes that you can take, critical.  Most of what we do is record and relay information so you want to be able to do that the proper way. I’m not stuck at a desk and my job changes all the time. Any one project we work on takes about two weeks and then we work on another project. Just build up your knowledge base of whatever natural thing your gonna wanna get into. I don’t care if it’s bugs or trees or little plants it’s all important to have that basic ground knowledge.  When people think about the forest service they think about trees they think about foresters, but we’re so much more than that. We not only have forestry technicians but we have scientists we have law enforcement officers firefighters. We have writers who take information we gather and write journals. Any job career that you could think of, the forest service has that. I never look at my job and think awe man I’ve got to go to work today no I love waking up and going to work it’s awesome. It’s an incredible place to work and talking to my coworkers here they all say the same thing it’s not oh we’ve got to go out into the poison ivy and the ticks again it’s man we’re outside, this is great, let’s go do it.