Overview

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Day-to-Day

• Check equipment to ensure that it is operating properly.
• Confer with other workers to discuss issues, such as safety, cutting heights, or work needs.
• Gather, package, or deliver forest products to buyers.
• Sow or harvest cover crops, such as alfalfa.
• Spray or inject vegetation with insecticides to kill insects or to protect against disease or with herbicides to reduce competing vegetation.

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Forest Worker

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Pathways to this Career

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Bachelor's Degree

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Associate's Degree

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Agriculture & Forestry

The primary activities of this group involve cultivating crops, raising livestock, harvesting timber, and fishing in order to produce food, fuel, and other natural resources.