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Check equipment to ensure that it is operating properly.
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Confer with other workers to discuss issues such as safety, cutting heights, and work needs.
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Fight forest fires or perform prescribed burning tasks under the direction of fire suppression officers or forestry technicians.
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Perform fire protection and suppression duties such as constructing fire breaks and disposing of brush.
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Select and cut trees according to markings or sizes, types, and grades.
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Identify diseased or undesirable trees, and remove them, using power saws or hand saws.
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Spray or inject vegetation with insecticides to kill insects and to protect against disease, and with herbicides to reduce competing vegetation.
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Drag cut trees from cutting areas and load trees onto trucks.
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Thin and space trees, using power thinning saws.
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Maintain tallies of trees examined and counted during tree marking and measuring efforts.
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Job Training Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Job Zone Examples These occupations involve following instructions and helping others. Examples include taxi drivers, amusement and recreation attendants, counter clerks, construction laborers, and waiters or waitresses.
