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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in pulling, blasting, chopping, and transporting stumps, used in destructive distillation process for obtaining crude turpentine.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cruises forest land to estimate volume of marketable timber and collect data concerning forest conditions for appraisal, sales, administration, logging, land use, and forest management planning. Respnsibilities include:
* Traverses forest area on foot in established pattern and applies sampling technique.
* Sights over scale stick to estimate height and diameter of each tree in sample.
* Estimates loss of marketable volume due to defects, such as rot and bends in tree, and computes quantity of usable wood in each tree.
* Logs cruise data and prepares summary report of timber types, sizes, condition, and outstanding features of area, such as existing roads, streams, lakes, and communication facilities.
* May mark trees with spray paint to denote trail, boundary, or for cutting.
* May be designated Chief Cruiser (forestry) when leading a crew.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cruises forest land to estimate volume of marketable timber and collect data concerning forest conditions for appraisal, sales, administration, logging, land use, and forest management planning. Respnsibilities include:
* Traverses forest area on foot in established pattern and applies sampling technique.
* Sights over scale stick to estimate height and diameter of each tree in sample.
* Estimates loss of marketable volume due to defects, such as rot and bends in tree, and computes quantity of usable wood in each tree.
* Logs cruise data and prepares summary report of timber types, sizes, condition, and outstanding features of area, such as existing roads, streams, lakes, and communication facilities.
* May mark trees with spray paint to denote trail, boundary, or for cutting.
* May be designated Chief Cruiser (forestry) when leading a crew.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts trees, brush, and other growth, using chain saw, ax, brush-hook, and other handtools to clear land for construction, forestry, logging or agriculture activities, to remove infestation, or to control growth along utility, highway, or railroad right-of-way.
* May pile brush for burning or load onto trucks.
* May feed brush into shredding or chipping machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in hunting for and capturing sea mammals for research and display. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with management to ascertain kind and number of animals to be captured, time and location of hunt, and mode of travel.
* Determines personnel, food, equipment and other supply requirements for hunt and capture of animals.
* Inspects equipment for adequacy and condition.
* Arranges for repair services and requisitions needed supplies.
* Maintains and repairs, or supervises maintenance and repair of equipment.
* Assigns workers to activities, such as mending nets and attaching floats and packing and loading food and material in carrier.
* Scouts ocean beaches and rookeries and stands watch on boat to locate mammals.
* Coordinates activities, such as catching mammals, on-site container construction, and in-transit mammal care.
* Performs other duties described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who hunts, traps, and kills predatory animals to collect bounty. Respnsibilities include:
* Hunts quarry, using dogs, and shoots animals.
* Traps or poisons animals depending on environs and habits of animals sought.
* Removes designated parts, such as ears or tail from slain animals, using knife, to present as evidence of kill for bounty.
* May skin animals and treat pelts for marketing.
* May train dogs for hunting.
* May be designated according to animal hunted as Cougar Hunter; Coyote Hunter; Wolf Hunter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects and captures sea life specimens, such as finfish, shellfish, and mammals working individually or as member of crew, using skin-diving equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Dives or walks into sea and swims underwater to scout terrain and reach work area.
* Twists, cuts, and tears specimens, such as abalone, starfish, or sponge, from surface to which attached, and places specimens in container.
* Catches finfish and shellfish, using net.
* Signals boat crew to hoist container or net to surface.
* Places nets underwater to capture sea mammals, such as whales, porpoises, and dolphins.
* Stands watch to observe behavior of captured mammals.
* Swims in, around, and under nets to free captive and other quarry caught in net and to prevent injury, escape, or drowning.
* Restrains mammal with arms or nets, and rigs net or sling under catch to permit hoisting without bodily injury.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects and captures sea life specimens, such as finfish, shellfish, and mammals working individually or as member of crew, using skin-diving equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Dives or walks into sea and swims underwater to scout terrain and reach work area.
* Twists, cuts, and tears specimens, such as abalone, starfish, or sponge, from surface to which attached, and places specimens in container.
* Catches finfish and shellfish, using net.
* Signals boat crew to hoist container or net to surface.
* Places nets underwater to capture sea mammals, such as whales, porpoises, and dolphins.
* Stands watch to observe behavior of captured mammals.
* Swims in, around, and under nets to free captive and other quarry caught in net and to prevent injury, escape, or drowning.
* Restrains mammal with arms or nets, and rigs net or sling under catch to permit hoisting without bodily injury.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who kills seals for pelts, using clubs. Respnsibilities include:
* Rounds up droves of bachelor seals resting or sleeping on beach adjacent to, but distinct from, rookery, using pole to prod them and keep them together.
* Drives male seals inland to killing grounds, and sorts droves into pods.
* Kills male seals that are within specified age and size limits, by striking them on head with club, after allowing others to escape.
* Severs skin around head and flippers of dead seal, using knife, pins its skull to ground with metal bar, and pulls off seal's skin from head to tail.
* Loads pelts onto trucks for transportation to plant for cleaning and curing.
* Washes pelts in sea water.
* Scrapes fat and blubber from pelts, using hand scraper.
* Cures pelts in salt or brine, sprinkles boric acid on skin side of pelt to prevent bacterial development, and packs and salts pelts in barrels for shipment and further processing.
* May be designated according to specific task performed as Seal Driver; Seal Killer; Seal Skinner.
* Sealing operations are controlled by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who kills seals for pelts, using clubs. Respnsibilities include:
* Rounds up droves of bachelor seals resting or sleeping on beach adjacent to, but distinct from, rookery, using pole to prod them and keep them together.
* Drives male seals inland to killing grounds, and sorts droves into pods.
* Kills male seals that are within specified age and size limits, by striking them on head with club, after allowing others to escape.
* Severs skin around head and flippers of dead seal, using knife, pins its skull to ground with metal bar, and pulls off seal's skin from head to tail.
* Loads pelts onto trucks for transportation to plant for cleaning and curing.
* Washes pelts in sea water.
* Scrapes fat and blubber from pelts, using hand scraper.
* Cures pelts in salt or brine, sprinkles boric acid on skin side of pelt to prevent bacterial development, and packs and salts pelts in barrels for shipment and further processing.
* May be designated according to specific task performed as Seal Driver; Seal Killer; Seal Skinner.
* Sealing operations are controlled by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.
Industry:Professional careers
