Sentences with phrase «logger training»

We've heard a lot about the new teacher evaluation plan, school aid and ethics reforms but this week on New York NOW we'll take a look at what a small fraction of the $ 142 billion spending plan is helping create - a logger training program.

Take a look at what a small fraction of the $ 142 billion spending plan is helping create - a logger training program.

The Senate's budget resolution, meanwhile, would provide $ 500,000 for «North American Logger Training» at Paul Smith's College in the Adirondacks.

Not exact matches

Loggers and testers don't usually undertake formal instruction, but require the same on - site training and experience.

Since the state of Oregon has been specialized in lumber, the suggestion that the loggers be trained for other employment is too easy to make and too hard to implement.

Everyone is at it, from loggers felling the Amazonian rainforest and fishers fighting over the last few cod to SUV drivers running the oil wells dry and politicians on their gravy trains.

In the Huangnihe conservation district, a patchwork of old growth forest and reforested former logging areas adjacent to Jilin's two main tiger habitat reserves, Huangnihe forest reserve director Li Cheng is working with scientists and conservation groups to find alternative jobs for locals, for example by training loggers and poachers as organic honey farmers.

Students learned to estimate volume and stand area, completed logger safety training, and performed a small - scale timber harvest.

The program will involve training young people in the State — often recruited by illegal loggers and poachers — in sustainable economic activities such as bee keeping and mushroom farming.

They also influence millions of additional acres through the training of loggers and foresters in best management practices and landowner outreach programs.»

New safety related tools, training and helicopter air lift for injured loggers have improved their working conditions and help to prevent on the job accidents or offer a faster way to seek medical attention.