Job Description
Forestry and related workers plan, organize and perform operations to cultivate, conserve and exploit natural and plantation forests.
Key Tasks & Responsibilities
Tasks include -
(a) assessing sites for reforestation, selecting seedlings and planting trees using manual planting tools and establishing and caring for forest stands;
(b) locating trees to be felled and estimating volume of timber;
(c) operating chainsaw and other power saws to thin young forest stands, trim, top and fell trees and saw them into logs;
(d) shaping rough wooden products from logs at felling site;
(e) stacking logs and loading them in chutes or floating them down rivers;
(f) keeping watch to detect forest fires, participating in firefighting operations, completing firefighting reports and maintaining firefighting equipment;
(g) controlling weeds and undergrowth in regenerating forest stands using manual tools and chemicals;
(h) 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;
(i) collecting seed cones, pruning trees, assisting in planting surveys and marking trees for subsequent operations;
(j) training and supervising other workers in forestry procedures, including forestry labourers and plant operators.
