- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who locates and reports forest fires and weather phenomena from remote fire-lookout station. Respnsibilities include:
* Maintains surveillance from station to detect evidence of fires and observe weather conditions.
* Locates fires on area map, using azimuth sighter and known landmarks, estimates size and characteristics of fire, and reports findings to base camp by radio or telephone.
* Observes instruments and reports daily meteorological data, such as temperature, relative humidity, wind direction and velocity, and type of cloud formations.
* Relays messages from base camp, mobile units, and law enforcement and governmental agencies relating to weather forecasts, fire hazard conditions, emergencies, accidents, and location of crews and personnel.
* Explains state and federal laws, timber company policies, fire hazard conditions, and fire prevention methods to visitors of forest.
* Maintains records and logbooks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who patrols assigned area of forest to locate and report fires and hazardous conditions and to ensure compliance with fire regulations by travelers and campers. Respnsibilities include:
* Hikes or drives to vista points to scan for fires and unusual or dangerous conditions.
* Reports findings and receives and relays emergency calls, using telephone or two-way radio.
* Visits camping sites to inspect activities of campers and ensure compliance with forest use and fire regulations.
* Gives instructions regarding sanitation, fire, and related forest regulations.
* Extinguishes smaller fires with portable extinguisher, shovel, and ax.
* Serves as crew leader for larger fires.
* Renders assistance or first aid to lost or injured persons.
* Participates in search for lost travelers or campers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs variety of tasks to reforest and protect timber tracts and maintain forest facilities, such as roads and campsites. Respnsibilities include:
* Plants tree seedlings in specified pattern, using mattock, planting hoe, or dibble.
* Cuts out diseased, weak, or undesirable trees, and prunes limbs of young trees to deter knot growth, using handsaw, power saw, and pruning tools.
* Fells trees, clears brush from fire breaks, and extinguishes flames and embers to suppress forest fires, using chain saw, shovel, and engine-driven or hand pumps.
* Clears and piles brush, limbs, and other debris from roadsides, fire trails, and camping areas, using ax, mattock, or brush hook.
* Sprays or injects trees, brush, and weeds with herbicides, using hand or powered sprayers or tree injector tool.
* Erects signs and fences, using posthole digger, shovel, tamper, or other handtools.
* Replenishes firewood and other supplies, and cleans kitchens, rest rooms, and campsites or recreational facilities.
* Holds measuring tape or survey rod, carries and sets stakes, clears brush from sighting line, and performs related tasks to assist forest survey crew.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who suppresses forest fires, working alone or as member of crew. Respnsibilities include:
* Fells trees, cuts and clears brush, digs trenches, and extinguishes flames and embers to contain or suppress fire, using ax, chain saw, shovel, and hand- or engine-driven water pumps.
* Patrols burned area after fire to watch for hot spots that may restart fire.
* When leading and directing fire-fighting activities of a crew of workers, may be designated Suppression-Crew Leader (forestry).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plants seedling trees to reforest timber lands or Christmas tree farms. Respnsibilities include:
* Digs planting hole at predetermined spaced interval, using mattock-like tool or dibble.
* Places seedling in hole and packs soil around plant, using foot or planting tool.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who gathers decorative greens, medicinal plants and barks, tree cones, moss, or other wild plant life from forest by hand or using handtools, such as pruning shears, knife, or shovel.
* Bundles or sacks products and delivers them to buyer.
* May climb trees to reach cones and boughs, using climbing belt and climbing spurs.
* May sort gathered plant life by size or species.
* May be designated according to product gathered as Cascara-Bark Cutter (forestry); Decorative Greens Cutter (forestry); Medicinal-Plant Picker; Moss Picker; Seed-Cone Picker (forestry).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to collect sugar, oleoresin, or other tree sap. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts or bores tap in face of tree, using auger, ax, hack (hook-shaped tool) or other handtool.
* Inserts spout or trough into tap and hangs or nails receptacle under tap.
* Dumps filled receptacles into collection barrel, tank, or similar container and transports to central collection point.
* May gather scrape (hardened gum) at end of season, using hand scraper.
* May rake leaves and other debris to clear trees for tapping and lessen fire hazard.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in felling trees, trimming off limbs, and sawing felled trees into logs. Respnsibilities include:
* Specifies log lengths to be cut, trees to be left, stump height, and cutting sequence.
* Trains workers in felling and bucking techniques and safety practices.
* Gives instructions to workers in felling trees with unusual or dangerous characteristics.
* May supervise tree-shear operators.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fells timber trees, applying knowledge of tree characteristics and cutting techniques to control direction of fall and minimize tree damage. Respnsibilities include:
* Appraises tree for characteristics, such as twists, rot, and heavy limb growth, and gauges amount and direction of lean, using ax as plumb bob.
* Determines position, direction, and depth of cuts to be made and placement of wedges or jacks.
* Clears brush and debris from work area and escape route, and cuts saplings and other trees from falling path, using ax and chain saw.
* Scores cutting lines with ax, saws undercut along scored lines with chain saw, and knocks slabs from cuts with ax.
* Saws back-cuts, leaving sufficient sound wood to control direction of fall.
* Inserts jack or drives wedges behind saw to prevent binding of saw and start tree falling.
* Stops saw engine as tree tips, pulls cutting bar from cut, and runs to predetermined location to avoid injury from falling limbs and flying debris.
* May work on piecework basis and be designated Busheler.
* May cut trees into log lengths.
* Fallers of small timber (generally under 18 inches in diameter) are classified as faller II.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fells timber trees, applying knowledge of tree characteristics and cutting techniques to control direction of fall and minimize tree damage. Respnsibilities include:
* Appraises tree for characteristics, such as twists, rot, and heavy limb growth, and gauges amount and direction of lean, using ax as plumb bob.
* Determines position, direction, and depth of cuts to be made and placement of wedges or jacks.
* Clears brush and debris from work area and escape route, and cuts saplings and other trees from falling path, using ax and chain saw.
* Scores cutting lines with ax, saws undercut along scored lines with chain saw, and knocks slabs from cuts with ax.
* Saws back-cuts, leaving sufficient sound wood to control direction of fall.
* Inserts jack or drives wedges behind saw to prevent binding of saw and start tree falling.
* Stops saw engine as tree tips, pulls cutting bar from cut, and runs to predetermined location to avoid injury from falling limbs and flying debris.
* May work on piecework basis and be designated Busheler.
* May cut trees into log lengths.
* Fallers of small timber (generally under 18 inches in diameter) are classified as faller II.
Industry:Professional careers
