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Hi, I'm Carl Petrick, Forest Supervisor
for the National Forests in Mississippi.
I hope you'll consider joining our
dedicated team
we have a working forest with lots of
opportunities in timber management
prescribed fire and wildlife management
we're doing incredible work to restore
forested ecosystems
and conserving fish and wildlife species
The best part about Mississippi
and in my opinion is just the
opportunity to
work in different areas between wildfire
prescribed fire
and other programs that we have here on
the forest
and that's pretty unique and you're able
to learn quite a bit
To me, here in Mississippi it's all
about the resource
and the people. Mississippi
is very rich and diverse through its
landscape
the opportunity from a biologist's
perspective
is is very unique in that you get to
manage
habitat and handle conservation issues
for both game and non-game species.
What I would say to someone coming to
Mississippi to work on our national
forest is that the forests here are very
diverse
most people would think that we're just
southern pine forests and all you're
going to see
are pine trees when you come here and we
do have a
diverse system of southern pine from
longleaf pine systems
trolley systems but we have a great
amount of
upland hardwoods and the only bottomland
hardwood forest in the nation.
The fact that I can work as an archaeologist in
the field
and do all the aspects that I expect to
do as as an archaeologist like
everything from doing field work to
analyzing artifacts writing reports I
can do all that.
We have active prescribed fire programs, we have
active timber programs and a lot of
recreational activities and
and we have the opportunity to
participate in all those program areas
For anyone that's coming or looking for
a job here in Mississippi
the things that I would say is that the
Forest Service is a really good
agency to work for, Mississippi is such a
beautiful state
that offers a lot of great recreational opportunities
and also just the camaraderie within the
agency
it has a family-like atmosphere to where
I feel like anybody that comes here will
feel welcomed
love and a part of the team.
I'm truly excited about what the future
holds for the National Forest in the
state of Mississippi under this
leadership and the energy that I see
and staff I think it's really
exciting, opportunities are truly endless
on the national forest.
Mississippi is a very welcoming
state, it's got a small town feel to it
the people are just genuinely
friendly and sincere, very welcoming to me
and my family and there's tremendous
amount of outdoor recreational opportunities and
it's just a great place, we've enjoyed it
thoroughly since we've been here.
I would tell anyone who is considering
to come to the National Forests in
Mississippi as an employee to join us
in caring for the land and serving people.