Tree Crew

Confer with other workers to discuss issues such as safety, cutting heights, or work needs.

Maintain tallies of trees examined and counted during tree marking or measuring efforts.

Perform fire protection or suppression duties, such as constructing fire breaks or disposing of brush.

Check equipment to ensure that it is operating properly.

Select tree seedlings, prepare the ground, or plant the trees in reforestation areas, using manual planting tools.

Spray or inject vegetation with insecticides to kill insects or to protect against disease or with herbicides to reduce competing vegetation.

Prune or shear tree tops or limbs to control growth, increase density, or improve shape.

Select or cut trees according to markings or sizes, types, or grades.

Sort tree seedlings, discarding substandard seedlings, according to standard charts or verbal instructions.

Examine and grade trees according to standard charts and staple color-coded grade tags to limbs.

Erect signs or fences, using posthole diggers, shovels, or other hand tools.

Maintain campsites or recreational areas, replenishing firewood or other supplies and cleaning kitchens or restrooms.

Drag cut trees from cutting areas and load trees onto trucks.

Explain or enforce regulations regarding camping, vehicle use, fires, use of buildings, or sanitation.

Identify diseased or undesirable trees and remove them, using power saws or hand saws.

Thin or space trees, using power thinning saws.

Operate skidders, bulldozers, or other prime movers to pull a variety of scarification or site preparation equipment over areas to be regenerated.

Gather, package, or deliver forest products to buyers.

Sow or harvest cover crops, such as alfalfa.

Fight forest fires or perform prescribed burning tasks under the direction of fire suppression officers or forestry technicians.