Also called: City Forester, Municipal Arborist
Manages all the trees in a city, planning plantings, removals, and tree-planting programs for shade and climate.
You map a city's 300,000 street trees, decide where to plant to cool hot neighborhoods, respond when a storm knocks trees onto roads, and run volunteer planting events.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in forestry or urban forestry; ISA arborist certification.
Ways in: 4-year college, Certification. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Urban Forestry, Forestry, Environmental Science.
Growing faster than average. Cities are investing in tree canopy for heat and stormwater.
Low risk for 10 years. AI tree inventories from street imagery speed mapping; planning plantings and working with residents stay human.
Classes: Biology, Earth science, Geography or GIS.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-1032.
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