Here's what I see everyday in my current assignment as a Timber Sale Administrator. It's up to me to monitor the loggers and make sure they follow the stringent laws, rules and policies in the complex timber sale contract and to protect invaluable natural resources. In this project near Jackson, California, I'm salvaging burned timber from last year's Power Fire.

In the above picture, the timber faller has just felled this tree alongside a road and his skill has made this tree fall up the hill and not on the road. The most dangerous job in America is felling trees, far more dangerous than a policeman or fire fighter (not even in the top ten).

This machine is used for "decking" logs and loading them on log trucks. He's having to sort out these logs into different sizes and bring some order into this "log landing", a flat place on a road that logs out in the woods are "skidded" to.

And, finally, this work is quite physical and has taken its toll on a co-worker of mine. I just couldn't resist snapping a few pictures of Brian catching a catnap at the end of our lunch break. Anyone wanna work for us?!?