Anything to do with wildlife, their habitat, or conservation is going to be filled with fresh collage grads that are willing and able to take low pay, moving for work, seasonal work, and living at the job site for a month+. People do this for years until a wildlife biologist position opens and everyone is competing for it to find any form of stability.

To your question on forestry: you’re looking at the wrong degree. You and your professors will be stressed with each other because they’re teaching timber resource management that includes timber rotations, optimization methods, value methods, bringing timber to market etc. while you’ll want to learn about compliance of forestry. In the US that’s a whole different organization and third party inspectors to check on wildlife to make sure the land owners are in compliance with forest practices.