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Industrie: Government; Labor
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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
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