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FOREST AND CONSERVATION WORKER
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2B
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 25
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 40
- Wage: 17.72 USD / Hour
- Start date: 07/01/2025
- End date: 09/30/2025
- Process date: 04/29/2025 17:54:49
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Duties of the forest conservation worker are to develop and maintain woodlands. This includes: applying pesticides and herbicides through sprays, soil incorporation, or chemical application on trees and shrubs to prep future planting sites and/or maintain current sites. Hand planting tree seedlings w/o J/U root using a planting hoe or a planting shovel. Tubing or netting may be performed to protect the seedlings. Pruning, slashing, and trail construction is done with chainsaws and other hand-held equipment. Other duties of developing and maintaining woodlands include: clearing, brush piling, pile covering for future disposal, slash pile burning, conduct fuel abatement by cutting and clearing burnable material as required to establish fire breaks, and other activities as per Forestry Land Management Services onetonline.org (45-4011), to include performing prescibed burning tasks or fighting forest fires while under the direction of the fire suppression officers or forestry technicians, performing fire protection or suppression duties, such as constructing fire breaks or disposing of brush. All duties are performed in various weather conditions. The worker must be able to walk up to 15 miles a day and stoop and bend while carrying a pack weighing up to 50lbs. All duties are performed in rough terrain, up to 30-40% slopes. Locations may be in remote areas with no trails and accessed by unimproved roads.