Their job is to help people understand and enjoy the forest. They teach people how to enjoy the forest without hurting it by causing fires, throwing away litter, or destroying plants. Not all scientists wear white coats and work with test tubes in laboratories. Many kinds of scientists work in the forest. For them the forest is like a big laboratory.
Botanists study plants.
Zoologists study animals. Ornithologists study birds. Herpetologists study snakes and frogs. Entomologists study bugs. Ichthyologists study fish.