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Timber companies, governments, hydroelectric companies, municipalities, and conservation authorities will hire those with a background in forestry. There they can work in tree marking, forest inventory, forest environment and ecosystem assessment, or compliance monitoring. Urban foresters can work in urban parks management, as landscape tree specialists, and as greenhouse technicians. The forest products industry such as private woodlot owners, sawmills, pulp mills, and tree farms, will also hire forestry graduates.
Forestry graduates can also branch out and work in wildlife management, nature interpretation, arboriculture, bio-energy management, and forest fire control. This can happen in various National, regional, and local parks, as well as in science education centers. Some graduates elect to be self-employed as a forestry contractor or resource consultant, working for private industries or various government agencies such as Environment Canada, Parks Canada, and Natural Resources Canada.
Those who wish to remain in academia can teach forestry, environmental science, and natural resources management at the post-secondary level, while doing research at the same time. Those with an additional education degree can also teach biology or ecology at the high school level.
A background in forestry can be used as a stepping-stone for a degree in natural resources law, conservation, forest engineering, or forest business management.
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