forest worker

Forest workers carry out a variety of jobs to care for and manage trees, woodland areas and forests. Their activities include planting, trimming, thinning and felling trees and protecting them from pests, diseases and damage.

The most in-demand skills for this role include sustainable forest management, pollution prevention, reforestation, control tree diseases, perform pest control, work independently in forestry services. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives forest worker a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.