For those of us who aren’t familiar with the way work is done at the Forest Service, and the tasks of different levels, Jason has a good description of how the Supervisor’s Office Recreation folks support the Districts. I thought that this would be useful to highlight the utility of work at the Supervisor’s Office, and share Jason’s appreciation for folks doing this kind of work.
In our SO, engineering provides recreation support with complex bridge design and construction and major repairs to water, sewer, and electrical systems and to buildings. Work involves design, contract prep contract oversight and zones hands on repairs. There is a Forest rec program manager and developed recreation/trails specialist stationed at the SO to support Districts with Rec budgeting, project level budgeting, providing input to IDT, landscape architect support (rec site design, visuals), master site planning, information kiosk design & construction, sign planning, rec site and trail condition surveys, trail layout and design, partnership management, partnership outreach/development, drafting and oversight of agreements with multiple partners, service contract preparation, drafting volunteer agreements, development of operations and maintenance plans, procurement contract prep, design and layout of minor trail bridges, managing the Forest website to update recreation/trails information to ensure they are accurate, coordinating and putting on training such as hazard tree assessments and minor bridge inspections. They also go out, get their hands dirty as well, and assist Districts with project level implementation such as trail construction or construction of an information board kiosk. Wear many different hats.