United States
6210-Forestry and related workers
Job Title ( International classification ):
Forestry and related workers
ISCO Code:
6210
Job Description:
Forestry and related workers plan, organize and perform operations to cultivate, conserve and exploit natural and plantation forests.
Tasks:
Main 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 fire fighting operations, completing fire fighting reports and maintaining fire fighting 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. Examples of the occupations classified
Inclusions:
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Charcoal burner
- Logger
- Logging climber
- Skilled forestry worker
- Timber cruiser
- Tree feller
Exclusions:
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Silviculturist - 2132
- Forestry technician - 3143
- Tree faller operator - 8341
- Forestry labourer - 9215
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Careers Indian Standards:
- Charcoal Burner, Wood
- Digester Operator, Wood
- Cane Cutter
- Distiller, Turpentine and Eucalyptus
- Estimator, Timber
- Forest Guard
- Foresters and Related Workers
- Gatherer Lac
- Forest Fire Watcher
- Forester
- Gatherer Firewood
- Gatherer, Medicinal Herbs
- Log Driver
- Marker, Log
- Sandal Wood Extractor
- Sorter, Timber
- Stableman
- Thatch Cutter
- Wood Cutter
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