Employer: Washington Trail Association
Date: April 2017 to September 2017

Duties
While I was worked for Washington Trail Assication I was responsible for leading a crew of 12 volunteers through out Washington state for a 8 days work project. Some of the project types we worked included

• Log outs
• New trail construction
• Trail maintenance
• Corridor maintenance
• Water diversion
• Ecosystem rehabilitation
• Public outreach
• Hazard tree removal

The most important aspect of my job as a crew leader consisted of teaching people how to safely and efficiently work outdoors while in a spike camp setup. Some of the skill classes I taught and utilized were

• Crosscut operations: Safety relating to working around and with crosscut saw. While using the saw I was personally responsible for daily saw care, supervising log outs, crosscut operations, and advanced sawing skills.
• Trailwork generals: Rockwork (checks, walls, armoring, drainage), Wood work (retaining), Water drainage (construction of grade dips, water bars, culverts), and various trail structural features (Turnpikes, switch back construction, general trail features such as corridor, tread, outslopping, back cut, hinge, berm removal, slough removal, ect. )
• Tool usage: Teaching proper technique and safe usage of rockwork tools (Single jack, double jack, rockbar, picks, bull hammers), corridor tools (loopers, hand saws, pole saws), wood tools (axes, pulaskis, wedges), general tread tools (picks, hoes, racks, tampers, shovels, buckets) and specialties tools (come-a-long, griphoist, crosscut, drills).

In addition to hard trail skills I was also responsible for supervising, cooking, environmental impacts, camp set up, maintence, and tear down. Finally I was also responsible for managerial duties, examples of this would be vehicle operations, paperwork, resupply, project partner coordination, budgeting, quality assurance, safety and various misc. task assigned to me.

Employer: Rocky Mountian Youth Corps
Date: May 2015 to June 2015

Duties
While working as the RMYC Veterans Fire crew leader my primary task was project management and saftey. While leading the crew our main project was to clear ground hazards and clean up a previous years thinning operation. The project was 20 acres of mixed small diameter aspen-pine forest. During the project I was responsible for the maintence of 8 saws, technical chainsaw work, advanced chainsaw instruction, and management of 8 active sawyers. In addition to cleaning a previous years thinning operation we were also tasked with snag falling to produce buck and rail for fencing. Outside of onsite management I was also responsible for daily paperwork, weekly paperwork, weekly tool maintence, budgetting, vehicle operations, project partner coordination, and conflict mediation. During this job everyone on the crew was certified as type 2 Wildland Fire Fighter and A-sawyer.

Note: I resigned from this job early in the season due to personal reasons.

Employer: Rocky Mountian Conservancy - Conservation Corps
Date: 05/2014 to 08/2014

Duties
While employed by the Rocky Mountain Conservancy Conservation Corps (RMC-CC) I worked as a crew leader of the Rawah District. The Rawah district located in Canyon Lakes region is primarily composed of wilderness trail. While working there my crew completed the following work

• Trees logged out: 1 to 7 inches: 205 trees; 8 to 15 inches: 206 trees; 16 to 23 inches: 49 trees; 23 inches to 36: 4 trees.
• Structural Features: 152 waterbars maintained/built; 89 grade dips maintained/built; 222 drains maintained/built; 5 check steps built; 1 wall built; 95 ft of new tread dug; 220 ft of trail decommissioned.
• Corridor: 6030 ft of brushing, 6065 ft of limbing
• Other: 5 lbs garbage removed

Overall we maintained 82.34 miles of trail and of that we maintained 64.17 miles to standard. While working as the crew leader my main job was supervisory and quality assurance. Specifically I was in charge of demonstrating and teaching the following skills:

• Tool usage: Proper technique for use of loopers, hand saws, crosscut saws (5ft /6ft, felling/bucking saws), pulaskis, axes (single bit and double bit), wedges (single taper, double taper), shovels, McClouds, picks (pick mattock and cutter mattocks), files, tool grinders.
• Tool maintenance: Proper sharpening edge for various tools (top or bottom), handle maintenance, tool reheading, crack repair and proper storage.
• Trail design: Water considerations, gradient consideration, proper layout and construction (bench, outslope, berm, backcut, hinge, ect).

Other duties also included vehicle operations, radio usage and various managerial aspects (Paperwork, project planning/implementation, supervisor coordination, budgeting). While working with the Canyon Lake Ranger district I also received the following trainings:

• Vehicle Safety Training,
• Crosscut B sawyer equivalence,
• Trails training,
• Radio usage.

Employer: Rocky Mountian Youth Corps
Date: 05/2013 to 08/2013

Duties
While I was worked for Rocky Mountain Youth Corps (RMYC) I was responsible for leading a crew of 9 people in western Colorado. Some of the project types we worked included

• New trail construction
• Trail maintenance
• Corridor maintenance
• Fence repair/building
• Water diversion
• Invasive species eradication
• Ecosystem rehabilitation
• Public outreach
• Hazard tree removal

The most important aspect of my job as a crew leader consisted of teaching people how to safely and efficiently work outdoors while in a spike setup. Some of the skill classes I taught and utilized were

• Chainsaw operations: Safety relating to working around and with a gas operated chainsaw (stihl 460 and 361). While using the saw I was personally responsible for tree falling, corridor maintenance (brushing limbing), chain sharpening (cutter and chipper chains), daily saw care ( bar, oiler plate, clutch drum, face plate) and weekly care (air filter, spark plug, carb, misc. repairs).
• Trailwork generals: Rockwork (checks, walls, armoring, drainage), Wood work (retaining), Water drainage (construction of grade dips, water bars, culverts), Fencing (construction and removal of barbwire) and various trail structural features (Turnpikes, switch back construction, general trail features such as corridor, tread, outslopping, back cut, hinge, berm removal, slough removal, ect)
• Tool usage: Teaching proper technique and safe usage of rockwork tools (Single jack, double jack, rockbar, chisel sets, picks, bull hammers), corridor tools (loopers, hand saws, pole saws), wood tools (axes, pulaskis, wedges), general tread tools (picks, hoes, racks, tampers, shovels, buckets) and specialties tools (brush saw, come-a-long, griphoist, chainsaw).

Other duties I preformed as a crew leader were mainly managerial, examples of this would be vehicle operations, paperwork, resupply, project partner coordination, budgeting, quality assurance, safety and various misc. task assigned to me.

Employer: Rocky Mountian Youth Corps
Date: 05/2012 to 08/2012

Duties
While employed as a Assistant Crewleader on a Fuels Reduction crew (Chainsaw) my primary job was to teach proper and safe usage of Stihl chainsaws in the 200 to 460 range. While falling our trees were predominantly snags and had diameter of breast height (DBH) ranging from 3 to 34 inches with most trees being around 12 inches DBH. Some specific skills I taught included:

• Face cuts: Taditional, Open, “Humbolt cut.”
• Back cuts: Traditional, sloping, “Half-moon.”
• Swamping: How to build a good swamp pile structural. Where to build it (i.e. away from drip lines, not on stumps, avoid rocks). Proper dispersal techniques (swamping density per square meter).
• Field boss skills such as project planning, safety overview, job safety assessments (or Job Hazard Analysis), emergency planning (helipad location, nearest hospital, trauma management).

When not teaching specific skills or watching scene safety I personally worked in the capacity of a B sawyer and removed hazards natural and produced by other sqyers. These hazards included widow makers, hangups, and spring poles. I also dealt with more complex falling not suitable to A-sawyers such as falling against the lean (traditional back cuts, half-moon cuts or bore cuts), larger diameter trees and trees with complexity such as heavy lean, widow makers or cracks.After the work day I was also jointly responsible for paperwork, crew dynamic management, budgeting, environmental education and various equipment repairs and usage logs.

Employer: Minnesota Conservation Corps
Date: 05/2011 to 08/2011

Duties
When working for the Conservation Corps Minnesota my main duties involved trail building operations and chainsaw operations (falling and corridor). While constructing trail through various regions of northern Minnesota I worked in both wilderness and non-wilderness settings. The majority of our project consisted of water damage mitigation to trails. This came in the form of turn picks, water diversion structures (culverts, ditchs, waterbars) or bog bridges. All of the bog bridge we built were made from material we hauled in and then notched for specific and tight fits, overall we built 300+ ft of bog bridging. Other than bog bridging we also were in charge of back country campsite maintenance such as filling in old latrines and building new ones to proper specification. Other responsibilities include proper equipment usage and maintenance of all tools.

Employer: Coconino Rural Environment Corps
Date:
01/2010 to 12/2010
Duties
While employed for CREC I worked a variety of projects through out Arizona, evenly split between time on a trail crew and a chainsaw crew.

• Saw projects: Fuels reduction, hazard tree removal, corridor maintenance, log outs, and primitive fence construction.
• Trail projects: Tread construction, corridor maintenance, structure construction, invasive species eradication, trash removal, fencing, crosscut operations and various ecosystem rehabilitation projects.

Projects were completed in all major ecosystems of the southwest (Low desert, high desert, scrub forest, alpine, high desert forest... ) and included 8 day spike camping.

Employer: Maine Conservation Corps
Date: 06/2009 to 11/2009

Duties
Primarily worked on large structure construction projects in Northern Maine and Acadia National Park. Structures built included staircases (rock, timber), platforms, railings, and bridges. Many of these projects required use of griphoist, highlines, and shaping tools. Other projects worked included general seasonal maintenance and trail recovery.