Course structure

• Apply fertilizer before and after planting.
• Apply herbicides to noxious weeds.
• Apply pesticides before or after planting.
• Clear plantation waste by burning.
• Contribute to the suppression of wildfires at basic fire-fighting level.
• Debranch trees using an axe/hatchet.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of supply and demand, and the concept: production.
• Demonstrate knowledge of key elements of commercial forestry.
• Describe and explain basic safety requirements in a forestry environment.
• Describe the environmental impacts of commercial forestry.
• Eradicate weeds manually in a commercial environment.
• Identify community issues in relation to conservation.
• Identify, explain and demonstrate standard safety procedures during active wildfire suppression.
• Manage personal finances.
• Perform basic life support and first aid procedures.
• Plan and manage time in the workplace.
• Plant plantation trees.
• Practice environmental awareness.
• Prepare planting site using hand tools.
• Understand the nature and importance of conservation.
• Apply basic business ethics in a work environment.
• Demonstrate an understanding of HIV/AIDS and its implications.
• Demonstrate knowledge of basic safety in forestry operations.
• Explain the individual`s role within business.
• Identify engineering tools, material and equipment and explain the purpose and function of each.
• Operate in a team.
• Analyze cultural products and processes as representations of shape, space and time.
• Collect, analyze, use and communicate numerical data.
• Critically analyze how mathematics is used in social, political and economic relations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of and use the numbering system.
• Describe and represent objects and the environment in terms of shape, space, time and motion.
• Engage in a range of speaking/signing and listening interactions for a variety of purposes.
• Explore and use a variety of strategies to learn.
• Read/view and respond to a range of text types.
• Use maps to access and communicate information concerning routes, location and direction.
• Working with numbers in various contexts.
• Write/Sign for a variety of different purposes.
• Debark trees with a hatchet and prepare bark bundles in a wattle operation.
• Reduce coppice in gum plantations.
• Select and space trees in commercial wattle forests.
• Choke and dechoke timber during extraction with a cable yarder in a production situation.
• Choke and dechoke timber during extraction with a skidding machine fitted with a winch in a production situation.
• Communicate using a two-way radio system.
• Load and refuel fixed wing aircraft for wildfire suppression.
• Operate and maintain a motorized water pump.
• Prune for access in Commercial Forestry and to ensure correct stem form.