Forestry Resume Sample

Key Result Areas:

• Check equipment to ensure that it is operating properly.
• Confer with other workers to discuss issues such as safety, cutting heights, and work needs.
• Fight forest fires or perform prescribed burning tasks under the direction of fire suppression officers or forestry technicians; perform fire protection and suppression duties such as constructing fire breaks and disposing of brush.
• Select and cut trees according to markings or sizes, types, and grades.
• Identify diseased or undesirable trees, and remove them, using power saws or hand saws.
• Spray or inject vegetation with insecticides to kill insects and to protect against disease, and with herbicidesto reduce competing vegetation; gather, package, and deliver forest products to buyers
• Drag cut trees from cutting areas and load trees onto trucks; thin and space trees, using power thinning saws
• Maintain tallies of trees examined and counted during treemarking and measuring efforts
• Erect signs and fences, using posthole diggers, shovels, or other hand tools
• Prune or shear tree tops and limbs in order to control growth, increase density, and improve shape
• Select tree seedlings, prepare the ground, and plant the trees in reforestation areas, using manual planting tools
• Provide assistance to forest survey crews by clearing site-lines, holding measuring tools, and setting stakes
• Explain and enforce regulations regarding camping, vehicle use, fires, use of building and sanitation
• Operate a skidder, bulldozer or other prime mover to pull a variety of scarification or site preparation equipment over areas to be regenerated
• Examine and grade trees according to standard charts, and staple color-coded grade tags tolimbs
• Sort and separate tree seedlings, discarding substandard seedlings, according to standard charts and verbal instructions

Key Highlights:

• Any existing systems/ processes streamlined???? Results obtained????Major assignments handled????
• Any unique initiative taken to improve customer satisfaction level???? Any major accounts/clients handled???
• Awards/appreciation letters received???? Other relevant achievements????

Key Result Areas:

• Planted seedlings to reforest land; directed forest fire suppression efforts to ensure minimal damage
• Cleared away brush and debris from camping trails, roadsides, and camping areas
• Counted trees during tree-measuring efforts; selected or cut trees according to markings, sizes, types, or grades\
• Sprayed trees with insecticides and fungicides to kill insects and protect the trees from disease
• Identified and removed diseased or undesirable trees; injected vegetation with insecticides and herbicides
• Helped prevent and suppress forest fires; checked equipment to ensure that it is operating properly
• Maintainedcampsites and recreational areas, replenishing firewood and other supplies, and cleaning kitchens and restrooms; sow and harvest cover crops such as alfalfa
• Determined the methods that should be used for removing and cutting timber to ensure minimalenvironmental damage and waste
• Analyzed the effects of conditions in the forest on tree species prevalence, tree growth rates, and seed production
• Developed and implemented project plans for the conservation of soil, water, and wildlife habitats

Key Highlights:

• Any existing systems/ processes streamlined???? Results obtained????Major assignments handled????
• Any unique initiative taken to improve customer satisfaction level???? Any major accounts/clients handled???
• Awards/appreciation letters received???? Other relevant achievements????