An investigation on the views of service-procurement forest engineers on forestry profession

The aim of this study is to reveal the problems of forest engineers who are employed by the service procurement. Within the scope of this study, it is aimed to determine the problems faced by the forest engineers working in the Sakarya, Düzce and Bolu provinces connected to the Sakarya branch of the Chamber of Forest Engineers and their managers in the forest management directorates within the boundaries of the province and their expectations and suggestions for the solution of the problems. According to the researches of forest engineers working with service procurement; most of the problems they focus on; bureaucracy, which complicates their activities, inadequacy of education, provided in forest faculties, inability to increase the diversity of activities, certain gaps in the Law of Authority and conflicts with other laws are listed as. It is emphasized that there is a need for common solution search platforms, which will include the representatives of educational institutions, the Chamber of Professions and the representatives of the state forest organization and other sector representatives. At the end of the study, problems and expectations of forest engineers working with service procurement were determined and evaluated. In addition, thanks to the information obtained from the forest management directorates that provide service, problems and their solutions have been developed.