Forestry technicians
NKPD code: 3143
Description
Forestry technicians perform technical and supervisory functions in support of research and forestry management, and conservation of resources and the environment. Forestry technicians perform the following main tasks: • 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