Specialist, silviculture

Forestry technicians perform technical and supervisory functions in support of research and forestry management, and conservation of resources and the environment.

• conducting forest inventories, field surveys and measurements using standard scientific and operational procedures;
• assisting in and performing technical functions in forest management and harvest planning using photogrammetric and cartographic techniques and computerised information systems;
• assisting in planning and supervising the construction of forest roads;
• performing, supervising and carrying out technical functions in silvicultural operations such as site preparation, planting and tending of forest stands;
• coordinating activities such as timber scaling, forest fire suppression, disease and insect control, and thinning of forest stands;
• supervising and performing technical functions in forest harvesting operations;
• ensuring compliance with regulations and policies on environmental protection, rational use of natural resources, fire safety and accident prevention;
• supervising silvicultural activities;
• providing technical assistance to forestry research programmes such as forest stand improvement, studies of stand diseases, introduction of experimental principles in forestry, and research in forest engineering;
• preparing plans for the cultivation and felling of forest stands.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Technician, forestry
• Technician, forest district