Forestry and related workers

Forestry and related workers plan, organize and perform operations to cultivate, conserve and exploit natural and plantation forests.

Job Responsibilities

• Assessing sites for reforestation, selecting seedlings and planting trees using manual planting tools and establishing and caring for forest stands
• Locating trees to be felled and estimating volume of timber
• Operating chainsaw and other power saws to thin young forest stands, trim, top and fell trees and saw them into logs
• Shaping rough wooden products from logs at felling site
• Stacking logs and loading them in chutes or floating them down rivers
• Keeping watch to detect forest fires, participating in fire fighting operations, completing fire fighting reports and maintaining fire fighting equipment
• Controlling weeds and undergrowth in regenerating forest stands using manual tools and chemicals
• Operating and maintaining a skidder, bulldozer or other prime mover to pull a variety of scarification or site preparation equipment over areas to be regenerated
• Collecting seed cones, pruning trees, assisting in planting surveys and marking trees for subsequent operations
• Training and supervising other workers in forestry procedures, including forestry labourers and plant operators