- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who harvests tree seedlings in forest nursery. Respnsibilities include:
* Walks along seedling tree rows, stoops, and pulls clumps of seedlings from loosened soil.
* Knocks clumps together to dislodge soil and loosen roots, and places seedlings in field trays.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who harvests tree seedlings in forest nursery. Respnsibilities include:
* Walks along seedling tree rows, stoops, and pulls clumps of seedlings from loosened soil.
* Knocks clumps together to dislodge soil and loosen roots, and places seedlings in field trays.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts tree seedlings in forest nursery. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes seedlings from field trays, separates them, and compares root formation, stem development, and foliage condition with standards chart and verbal instructions.
* Discards substandard seedlings and places remainder on conveyor for baling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts tree seedlings in forest nursery. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes seedlings from field trays, separates them, and compares root formation, stem development, and foliage condition with standards chart and verbal instructions.
* Discards substandard seedlings and places remainder on conveyor for baling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of airborne fire-fighting crews engaged in extinguishing forest fires. Respnsibilities include:
* Dispatches crews according to reported size, location, and conditions of fires.
* Directs loading of fire suppression equipment into aircraft and parachuting of equipment to crews on ground.
* Maintains aerial observation and radio communication with crews at fire scene to determine equipment and work force requirements, learn of any casualties, and inform crews and base camp of changing conditions.
* Parachutes to major fire locations and directs suppression activities.
* Explains and demonstrates parachute jumping, fire suppression, aerial observation, and radio communications to workers.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers fire prevention programs and enforces governmental fire regulations throughout assigned forest and logging areas. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects logging areas and forest tracts for fire hazards, such as accumulated wastes, hazardous storage or mishandling of fuels and solvents, defective engine exhaust systems, and unshielded electrical equipment.
* Examines and inventories water supplies and firefighting equipment, such as axes, firehoses, pumps, buckets, and chemical fire extinguishers to determine condition, amount, adequacy, and placement of materials with respect to governmental regulations and company rules.
* Prepares reports of conditions observed, issues directives and instructions for correcting violations, and reinspects areas to verify compliance.
* Directs maintenance and repair of firefighting tools and equipment and requisitions new equipment and materials to replace expended, lost, and broken items or add to inventory as required.
* Restricts public access and recreational use of forest lands during critical fire season.
* Gives directions to crew section on fireline during forest fire.
* May direct fire rangers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles data pertaining to size, content, condition, and other characteristics of forest tracts, under direction of forester; and leads workers in forest propagation, fire prevention and suppression, and facilities maintenance. Respnsibilities include:
* Traverses forest in designated pattern to gather basic forest data, such as topographical features, species and population of trees, wood units available for harvest, disease and insect damage, tree seedling mortality, and conditions constituting fire danger.
* Marks trees of specified specie, condition, and size for thinning or logging.
* Collects and records data from instruments, such as rain gauge, thermometer, stream-flow recorder, and soil moisture gauge.
* Holds stadia rod, clears survey line, measures distances, records survey data, and performs related duties to assist in surveying property lines, timber sale boundaries, and road and recreation sites.
* Trains and leads conservation workers in seasonal activities, such as planting tree seedlings, collecting seed cones, suppressing fires, cleaning and maintaining recreational facilities, and clearing fire breaks and access roads.
* Gives instructions to visitors of forest, and enforces camping, vehicle use, fire building, sanitation, and other forest regulations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles data pertaining to size, content, condition, and other characteristics of forest tracts, under direction of forester; and leads workers in forest propagation, fire prevention and suppression, and facilities maintenance. Respnsibilities include:
* Traverses forest in designated pattern to gather basic forest data, such as topographical features, species and population of trees, wood units available for harvest, disease and insect damage, tree seedling mortality, and conditions constituting fire danger.
* Marks trees of specified specie, condition, and size for thinning or logging.
* Collects and records data from instruments, such as rain gauge, thermometer, stream-flow recorder, and soil moisture gauge.
* Holds stadia rod, clears survey line, measures distances, records survey data, and performs related duties to assist in surveying property lines, timber sale boundaries, and road and recreation sites.
* Trains and leads conservation workers in seasonal activities, such as planting tree seedlings, collecting seed cones, suppressing fires, cleaning and maintaining recreational facilities, and clearing fire breaks and access roads.
* Gives instructions to visitors of forest, and enforces camping, vehicle use, fire building, sanitation, and other forest regulations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who parachutes from airplane into forest inaccessible by ground to suppress forest fires. Respnsibilities include:
* Jumps from airplane near scene of fire, pulls rip cord when clear of plane, and pulls shroud lines to guide direction of fall toward clear landing area.
* Orients self in relation to fire, using compass and map, and collects supplies and equipment dropped by parachute.
* Ascertains best method for attacking fire and communicates plan to airplane or base camp with two-way radio.
* Fells trees, digs trenches, and extinguishes flames and embers to suppress fire, using ax, chain saw, shovel, and hand or engine-driven water or chemical pumps.
* May pack parachutes.
Industry:Professional careers
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
