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Forest Products Harvester

Advances in forest products harvesting often lead to the use of complex machinery.

Directory of Certified Forest Practitioners

According to the Forest Practices Act, a certified forest products harvester may:

  • Participate in the execution of commercial forest products harvest operations

According to the Forest Practices Act, a certified forest products harvester cannot:

  • Represent him or herself as a forester or a supervising forest products harvester

  • Solicit the purchase of commercial forest products

  • Execute the contracts or agreements, either written or oral, for the purchase of commercial forest products

  • Act in the buyer's behalf in the supervision of a commercial forest products harvest operation, or in the purchase of commercial forest products

  • Mark trees

  • Represent the landowner as agent in the sale of commercial forest products

Certification of Forest Practitioners

Content last updated June 2019