it entails both expert knowledge of ecosystem management principles as well as hard, dirty manual labor - clearing underbrush, dead trees, conducting (safely, one hopes) prescribed burns on a periodic basis. typically the latter parts of the task list are delegated to part time laborers at as close to minimum wage as they can manage to o…
it entails both expert knowledge of ecosystem management principles as well as hard, dirty manual labor - clearing underbrush, dead trees, conducting (safely, one hopes) prescribed burns on a periodic basis. typically the latter parts of the task list are delegated to part time laborers at as close to minimum wage as they can manage to offer and still attract semi-qualified job applicants... this task is no longer being performed in quite a lot of places because no one wants the responsibility of paying for said poorly paid laborers to come out of their ever-decreasing budgets... short sighted, to say the least. wildfire response, cleanup and insurance costs are several orders of magnitude higher than just paying for the forest management workers to start with...
it entails both expert knowledge of ecosystem management principles as well as hard, dirty manual labor - clearing underbrush, dead trees, conducting (safely, one hopes) prescribed burns on a periodic basis. typically the latter parts of the task list are delegated to part time laborers at as close to minimum wage as they can manage to offer and still attract semi-qualified job applicants... this task is no longer being performed in quite a lot of places because no one wants the responsibility of paying for said poorly paid laborers to come out of their ever-decreasing budgets... short sighted, to say the least. wildfire response, cleanup and insurance costs are several orders of magnitude higher than just paying for the forest management workers to start with...
Used to be college kids on summer break did this sort of work. Pay was better than slinging burgers at the Golden Arches Supper Club.
Thank you!