Forest Workers

Manual itinerant work hand planting tree seedlings to reforest and maintain timberlands. Plant tree seedlings in specified pattern using a shovel, mattock, planting hoe, or dibble. Transport trees in a tree bag. Dig holes at pre-determined intervals and insert seedling. Tamp soil around plant with foot and planting tool. Select optimum planting location to meet spacing, soil, and shade requirements. Bare soil. These jobs involve propagating, protecting, and managing forest tracts. Manual itinerant work to perform reforestation support activities including pre-commercial thinning and herbicide spraying to maintain timberlands. Mark boundary lines. Use a chainsaw, brush blade, or other hand-held equipment, including chemical applicators such as hypo hatchet and spot gun, to remove excess trees and other vegetation. Use a backpack sprayer or other hand held tools to spray or inject vegetation with pre-mixed herbicides to reduce competing vegetation. Determine which immature trees to leave for accelerated growth, depending on spacing, species, size, freedom from disease or other defect, and possible damage to remaining trees. As minor activities, clear and pile brush, limbs and other debris from planting areas and gather pine straw.