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Forest Worker
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2B
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 45
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 40
- Wage: 16.89 USD / Hour
- Start date: 10/01/2025
- End date: 06/30/2026
- Process date: 07/30/2025 11:43:43
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Manual itinerant work to hand plant tree seedlings and perform pre-commercial thinning to reforest and maintain timberlands. Plant bare-root or containerized trees using a shovel, hoe dad, dibble bar, or hoe. Transport trees in a tree bag. Select optimum planting location to meet spacing, soil, and shade requirements. Dig holes at pre-determined intervals and insert seedling. Tamp soil around plant with foot and planting tool. Use a chainsaw, brush blade, or other hand-held equipment to remove excess trees and other vegetation. Determine which immature trees to leave for accelerated growth, depending on spacing, species, size, freedom from disease or other defect, and possible damage to remaining trees. Cut brush and other vegetation. Use a backpack sprayer or other hand held tools to spray or inject herbicides to reduce competing vegetation. Mark boundary lines. Workers who apply for and obtain, or currently hold a FLC or FLCE certificate of registration with driving authorized by the USDOL Wage and Hour Division during the employment period may transport workers, count and check, and may be offered additional work hours. These jobs involve propagating, protecting, and managing forest tracts. Employer may pay piece rates of $0.03 per tree planted correctly, $35.00 - $60.00 per acre thinned correctly and, $50.00 per mile to mark boundary lines; but not less than the highest prevailing wage in the area of intended employment, whichever is higher.