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O*NET detailed work activityManage agricultural or forestry operations
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6 jobs22 tasks
Leading people runs on trust, presence and reading the situation: motivating, correcting, backing people up and taking responsibility. AI can't do that for you.
Part of Manage agricultural or forestry operations, under the O*NET work activity group Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 2 AI-assist, 20 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Manage nurseries that grow horticultural plants for sale to trade or retail customers, for display or exhibition, or for research.
- Determine plant growing conditions, such as greenhouses, hydroponics, or natural settings, and set planting and care schedules.
- Supervise activities of other forestry workers.
- Direct and monitor the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks.
- Direct the breeding or raising of stock, such as cattle, poultry, or honeybees, using recognized breeding practices to ensure stock improvement.
- Manage private livestock operations.
- Plan and supervise forestry projects, such as determining the type, number and placement of trees to be planted, managing tree nurseries, thinning forest and monitoring growth of new seedlings.
- Manage forest protection activities, including fire control, fire crew training, and coordination of fire detection and public education programs.
- Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques.
- Plan and direct construction and maintenance of range improvements, such as fencing, corrals, stock-watering reservoirs, and soil-erosion control structures.
- Direct crop production operations, such as planning, tilling, planting, fertilizing, cultivating, spraying, and harvesting.
- Supervise pest or weed control operations, including locating and identifying pests or weeds, selecting chemicals and application methods, or scheduling application.
- Coordinate the selection and maintenance of brood stock.
- Direct, and participate in, forest fire suppression.
- Monitor activities of logging companies and contractors.
- Supervise forest nursery operations, timber harvesting, land use activities such as livestock grazing, and disease or insect control programs.
- Plan and direct construction and maintenance of recreation facilities, fire towers, trails, roads and bridges, ensuring that they comply with guidelines and regulations set for forested public lands.
- Plan and supervise construction of access routes and forest roads.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Regulate grazing, such as by issuing permits and checking for compliance with standards, and help ranchers plan and organize grazing systems to manage, improve, protect, and maximize the use of rangelands.
- Supervise or train agricultural technicians or farm laborers.
- Conduct or supervise operational programs, such as fish hatcheries, greenhouses and livestock production programs.
- Plan and implement revegetation of disturbed sites.