National Trails Day
National Saw Policy Webinar August 23, 11:30 Central Time
Learn about the new National Saw Policy!
Ask questions!
Hear why, how and who created the new policy!
Employees and cooperators are invited to attend a national webinar on the issuance of new national policy for the Forest Service Saw Program. A short slideshow will be presented to explain how the four year effort to create an overarching programmatic national policy (a new chapter in Forest Service Manual 2358), a revision to the Forest Service Handbook and a Forest Service Saw Operators Guide will help create a safer and more consistent saw program and better sawyers. Also learn about the National Sawyer Database and a new National Saw Program Manager position in the Washington Office.
Please join me, Robert Wetherell (USFS Saw Policy Specialist) along with Beth Boyst (Pacific Crest Trail Program Manager), Pete Duncan (Risk Management Officer-R5), Joni Packard (R1 Youth, Volunteer and 21CSC/Service Program Coordinator) as we answer your questions about how the new policy will affect your ongoing work with sawyers inside and outside the agency. This webinar is available to employees and cooperators alike. As most of the webinar will be devoted to answering your questions and providing clarification please come prepared to participate.
Does the new policy affect wild land firefighters?
Can volunteers be certified?
What do I need to change in volunteer, cooperating, challenge cost share and participating agreements that use sawyers?
All this and more!
Background information is available here!
Saw Policy | US Forest Service
The Forest Service, working with other agencies, partners and the public, established a policy for training and use of cross-cut and chain saws. Sawyers covered by those policies often maintain trails on national forests and grasslands, help fight wildfires, and work in wilderness where crosscut saws are required. The national saw directive standardizes training, evaluation, certification, and safety procedures for sawyers operating on lands managed by the agency.
Saw Operations Guide
FS Saw Operations Guide (.doc)
Federal Register notice
Final Directive for National Saw Program (link is external)
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