Forest warden
The forest warden is a training occupation in Switzerland and Austria . His field of activity is that of a forester .
In Germany it used to be the name of an official of the middle forest management service with the career sequence Forstwart, Ober-Forstwart, Haupt-Forstwart and operations inspector. He mostly emerged from the profession of forest worker after a corresponding specialist training. This middle career has now come to an end in the state forest administration. The new career of forest technician has taken its place within private forest administrations .
tasks
Forest guards are mostly employed in forest companies, where they perform the duties of German forest managers. Forest managers also have other career options:
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Through further training also specializations are possible as a forest warden foreman forestry equipment leader or cable crane -Einsatzleiter.
education
Austria
Those who successfully complete the two-year forestry school in Traunkirchen - a federal technical school with an all-day character, which was built from an excerpt of all subjects related to forestry from the former three-year forestry school - are entitled to use the state job title "forest warden". According to the law, in addition to graduates of higher forest training with a Matura or academic degree , forest guards are state forest organs and are allowed to manage a forest area of up to 1000 hectares on their own. A forest warden may be appointed for an area larger than 1000 hectares if this is part of an even larger forest area and, for example, a forest engineer or a forest graduate has been appointed as a forest organ for the entire area. Alternatively, the school can also be completed part-time in small units, whereby the so-called external students can divide compulsory lessons and exams over several years - on average over four years.
Future of the forestry school and the job description
In 2008, an official training evaluation process started in the responsible federal ministries on the initiative of the Austrian Forestry Association (ÖFF) and the Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management ( BMLFUW ). A few years earlier, the federal government wanted to abolish the forest warden as a professional group with a draft amendment to the forest law , and to dissolve it in a higher forest training facility with a high school diploma . It was decided to close the forestry school. The then president and later honorary president of the Austrian Forest Association, Kommerzialrat Juergen Auer reached that the government withdrew the short term closure of the school, changed the legal text and the Parliament the forester again rose by voting for state forestry body. Journalists therefore called Auer the savior of the forestry school.
Up to this day an extension of the training is evaluated, among other things on EU standards and business management priorities, as well as the creation of a related new job title and competence extensions, for example sole management of areas larger than 1000 hectares. In 2012, the responsible federal ministry (BMLFUW) informed Auer's regular successor as ÖFF president, Friedrich Leopold Hardegg, that the forestry school did not yet meet the requirements for an upgraded job profile in connection with the required improvements in the sense of a necessary federal funding decision are fulfilled.
Switzerland
Forest warden EFZ
In Switzerland, the forest warden is an apprenticeship, the apprenticeship lasts three years. The apprentices are instructed in general subjects and professional studies at the cantonal vocational schools . In the cantons of Vaud and Geneva , however, training is centered in the canton's own forestry training center, the “Center de Formation Professionnelle Forestière”, in Le Mont-sur-Lausanne . However, the introductory courses for forest warden apprentices traditionally organized by the forestry association “WaldSchweiz - Verband der Waldeigenthaber” are decentralized.
Training opportunities
Shortened basic education
- Fruit specialist EFZ
Professional examination with federal certificate:
- Forstwart- foreman / in
- Forest machine operator
- Cable crane head of operations
- Tree care specialist
- Wood specialist
- Nature and environmental specialist
- Dipl. Forester HF
University of Applied Sciences
- Bachelor of Science (FH) in Forestry
competition
Since 1970 the world championships for forest guards and lumberjacks have been held under the name International Association Logging Championship (IALC) . This competition, which is more based on craftsmanship, is also known as the professional world championship .
See also
Web links / sources
Austria:
- Austrian Forestry Association (Alumni Association of the Waidhofen Forestry School)
- Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management
Switzerland:
- Information on forest warden training on the website of the Canton of Lucerne (agriculture and forest)
- Forest warden EFZ / Forest warden EFZ , codoc.sh
Individual evidence
- ↑ Austrian Forestry Association
- ^ Association of forest guards
- ↑ Parliament ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ NÖN Series 89: Initiative for the forestry school . Weekly magazine NÖN, archive, 35/2008, p. 24.
- ↑ NÖN Series 89: LANDWIRT [1] . FARMER, Archives, February 2009, accessed December 21, 2012.
- ↑ For Switzerland forestry is Forest Switzerland. In: Forest Policy. November 23, 2015. From Forstpraxis.de, accessed on February 1, 2019.
- ↑ 31st World Logging Championship Brienz / Switzerland ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
