The original project, The Supervisor and the Work Crew Update, should be terminated. Since the inception of the original project, the traditional seasonal workforce has all but disappeared from the Forest Service. Fire suppression crews are an exception to this trend. Districts now rely almost exclusively on hosted groups and volunteers to get work done. Few people are now supervising traditional seasonal crews. Training supervisors for traditional crews is not a top priority.

The primary concern of Forest Service field-crew coordinators has shifted to managing hosted and volunteer labor on districts. The project team recommends a new project to create a handbook and possibly a video as tools to train Forest Service employees in coordinating and organizing these new kinds of workers. These materials should clarify coordinators' multiple roles and suggest ways of resolving the safety and liability problems faced by coordinators of hosted and volunteer workgroups. The project should focus on developing training materials to assist coordinators and on clarifying the roles coordinators could play.

The Forest Service National T&D Steering Committee on Safety and Health ranked this recommendation its number-one funding priority during its March 20, 2001, meeting in Denver, CO. Work to produce the training programs started in October 2001.