Forestry Supervisor
It was 1997 when I first started working in Tribal Forestry for the Yakama Nation. Tribal Forestry is comprised of the Forest Development Crew, Fire Management Crew, Fuels Crew, and the Timber Stand Examiners whom all help manage the Yakama Nation’s forested area. All the crews combined have around 100 people whom are Foresters, Fire Fighters, Tree Fallers, Tree Markers, Heavy Equipment Operators, and the supervisors. The employees come together to form a cross-functional team with their own specialties in forestry. Tribal Forestry employees all have the same goal, keep the forest alive and well. A lot of the job descriptions overlap, and mainly everyone knows how to fights fires and mark timber. I started as a part of …show more content…
This is where the brainstorming happens, to tackle the tasks at hand. First and foremost, safety is stressed at every briefing, especially while running chainsaws or fighting wildfires. While any of the processes are implemented by Arnold, he may utilize outside resources. In order for someone to be an outsider and work with your daily crew, the crew must trust them. The newly accepted crew member has to know themselves, meaning strengths and weaknesses. This is where Arnold will involve his crew to speak up for task management. He gives the crew a chance to try new tasks on a daily basis. Arnold will also help aid the new recruits with recognizing diseases in trees, so they can cut them to stop the diseases from spreading. If there is a trainee sawyer, Arnold will designate a trainer to show the subordinate the proper ways of running a chainsaw. Arnold will appoint a more experienced crew member to map out the cutting area, by running line. This line will be used as a guide for counting acreage, and mitigate the sawyers from cutting randomly in the forest. Each crew member will have to know how to size up a tree. With this, the sawyer will know which trees to cut and what trees are the dominate ones in a group. Each employee will also know how close the trees should be from one another. Arnold stresses providing 12-15 feet spacing between each tree will promote the healthy growth of the trees and also adequate water distribution as well. This spacing is for both thinning and planting trees. With these daily lessons Arnold gives the crew members the empowerment for future
It was 1997 when I first started working in Tribal Forestry for the Yakama Nation. Tribal Forestry is comprised of the Forest Development Crew, Fire Management Crew, Fuels Crew, and the Timber Stand Examiners whom all help manage the Yakama Nation’s forested area. All the crews combined have around 100 people whom are Foresters, Fire Fighters, Tree Fallers, Tree Markers, Heavy Equipment Operators, and the supervisors. The employees come together to form a cross-functional team with their own specialties in forestry. Tribal Forestry employees all have the same goal, keep the forest alive and well. A lot of the job descriptions overlap, and mainly everyone knows how to fights fires and mark timber. I started as a part of …show more content…
This is where the brainstorming happens, to tackle the tasks at hand. First and foremost, safety is stressed at every briefing, especially while running chainsaws or fighting wildfires. While any of the processes are implemented by Arnold, he may utilize outside resources. In order for someone to be an outsider and work with your daily crew, the crew must trust them. The newly accepted crew member has to know themselves, meaning strengths and weaknesses. This is where Arnold will involve his crew to speak up for task management. He gives the crew a chance to try new tasks on a daily basis. Arnold will also help aid the new recruits with recognizing diseases in trees, so they can cut them to stop the diseases from spreading. If there is a trainee sawyer, Arnold will designate a trainer to show the subordinate the proper ways of running a chainsaw. Arnold will appoint a more experienced crew member to map out the cutting area, by running line. This line will be used as a guide for counting acreage, and mitigate the sawyers from cutting randomly in the forest. Each crew member will have to know how to size up a tree. With this, the sawyer will know which trees to cut and what trees are the dominate ones in a group. Each employee will also know how close the trees should be from one another. Arnold stresses providing 12-15 feet spacing between each tree will promote the healthy growth of the trees and also adequate water distribution as well. This spacing is for both thinning and planting trees. With these daily lessons Arnold gives the crew members the empowerment for future