Course structure

• Communicate using a two-way radio system.
• Conduct maintenance on herbicide applicators.
• Cross-cut felled trees using a chainsaw in a production situation.
• Cut felled timber using a chainsaw and maintain chainsaw.
• Debranch felled trees using a chainsaw in a production situation.
• Demonstrate knowledge of basic safety in forestry operations.
• Fell trees with a chainsaw using the standard technique and felling levers.
• Conduct basic forestry map reading.
• Control activities at an airstrip during aerial wildfire suppression.
• Organize forestry work team activities.
• Control forestry work team activities.
• Demonstrate knowledge of silviculture in commercial forestry.
• Lead a strike attack force to contain or extinguish a wildfire.
• Manage a controlled burn.
• Manage a crew during wildfire suppression.
• Manage individual and team performance.
• Work as a project team member.
• Accommodate audience and context needs in oral communication.
• Analyze and respond to a variety of literary texts.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the use of different number bases and measurement units and an awareness of error in the context of relevant calculations.
• Describe, apply, analyze and calculate shape and motion in 2-and 3-dimensional space in different contexts.
• Interpret and use information from texts.
• Investigate life and work related problems using data and probabilities.
• Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal, business and national issues.
• Write texts for a range of communicative contexts.
• Manage a chemical store on a forestry plantation.
• Operate brush-cutters in commercial forestry.
• Perform fire-lookout duties.
• Scale tree lengths into log assortments in a production situation.
• Select and mark trees for thinning in commercial forestry.
• Operate an electronic fire surveillance facility.
• Perform administrative functions during wildfire suppression.