Logging Professional

Logging professionals harvest timber from forests. Most of these skilled workers operate logging equipment such as feller bunchers, processors, forwarders, skidders, and other machinery designed to fell trees, skid them out of the woods, sort product piles, and carry out related tasks. Logging professionals are responsible for implementing harvest prescriptions and employing best management practices to ensure they protect water quality during harvesting activities.

Responsibilities

Logging professionals' responsibilities include felling trees using heavy machinery and chainsaws, operating equipment, inspecting equipment for safety, performing maintenance on machines, cutting and grading logs according to industry standards, and transporting logs to loading areas. They frequently communicate with foresters, landowners, and others regarding harvest site requirements, laws and regulations, and production, among other factors.

Requirements

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Climate Connections

These professionals continuously adapt to unpredictable weather conditions to ensure minimal ground disturbance. Due to changing seasons, “mud season” and other weather factors affect their ability to operate at different times of the year, as many harvest sites require frozen ground conditions or snow cover.

Additionally, some wood harvested by logging professionals is milled into lumber products, and the carbon in that wood gets stored in these products while in use.

Logging Professional

Median Salary

$65,754

Responsibilities

Requirements

Climate Connections

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