Forestry and related workers plan, organize and perform operations to cultivate, conserve and exploit natural and plantation forests.
(a)   Tasks include -
assessing sites for reforestation, selecting seedlings and planting trees using manual planting tools and establishing and caring for forest stands;
locating trees to be felled and estimating volume of timber;
operating chainsaw and other power saws to thin young forest stands, trim, top and fell trees and saw them into logs;
shaping rough wooden products from logs at felling site;
stacking logs and loading them in chutes or floating them down rivers;
keeping watch to detect forest fires, participating in fire fighting operations, completing fire fighting reports and maintaining fire fighting equipment;
controlling weeds and undergrowth in regenerating forest stands using manual tools and chemicals;
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;
collecting seed cones, pruning trees, assisting in planting surveys and marking trees for subsequent operations;
training and supervising other workers in forestry procedures, including forestry labourers and plant operators.