>>2763912While harvesting is just being a machine operator I work in block development in Northern British Columbia and enjoy my job alot. Lot's of hiking through the bush being eaten alive by bugs but I wouldn't trade it for a cubicle, eventually I'll work myself into a desk position but that's for when I'm older. You can do this job without any schooling but my suggestion is getting a tech diploma which takes two years. The pay isn't amazing but northern BC is fairly cheap compared to the rest of the province.
There is a good deal of variety in the job from designing block boundary, planning out roads, doing riparian assessments or ecological classification. If you are the conservationist type I always say it's better if logging is done by people who care about nature instead of people who don't.
