Welcome to the Ohio Woodlands Job Corps.

Are you interested in?

• Working in the outdoors…
• Making $13.44 an hour doing conservation work at a state forest…
• Earning technical certifications in wildfire fighting, commercial pesticide application and in becoming a master logger…
• Promoting healthier state forests by removing exotic, invasive species…
• Receiving possible college credit…
• Earning up to $2,300 towards college...
• Starting a career in Ohio’s $15 billion wood industry…

What we do…

• Treat and remove invasive species such as Tree of Heaven and Bush Honeysuckle which suppress Ohio’s native understory…
• Assist with timber stand improvement projects and inventorying state forest lands…
• Bridle, hiking and APV trail maintenance and construction…

Where we work…

• Hocking State Forest (Hocking County)
• Blue Rock State Forest (Muskingum County)
• Maumee State Forest (Fulton County)                   
• Pike State Forest (Pike County)           
• Scioto Trail State Forest (Ross County)              
• Shawnee State Forest (Scioto County)                  
• Zaleski State Forest (Vinton County)  

These positions are of an intermittent appointment type, meaning that they are unclassified, non-benefits earning (with the exception of workers’ compensation and Ohio Public Employment Retirement System membership) and are for 1000 hours.

Where do I sign up?  The application period is closed.  Please check back in March, 2010.