Job Duties
Duties may include: raising & transporting seedlings; sort tree seedlings, discarding substandard seedlings, according to standard charts or verbal instructions. Plant: seedlings/trees. Selects optimum planting location to meet spacing, soil, and shade requirements; may perform only part of the planting function such as baring soil, or tamping soil around plant Spray or inject vegetation with insecticides to kill insects or to protect against disease or with herbicides to reduce competing vegetation; enhance growth. Trim trees or other vegetation; cut trees or logs. Incidental driving & other related Forestry Worker activities as per SOC/OES 45-4011 (onetonline.org).
Possible weekend/holiday work.