Course Overview
This course will allow the student to utilize the course material from the four major prerequisite courses to demonstrate current practices and problems in an integrated field study format. Using a multi-day field trip, the student will be exposed to a variety of coastal or interior resource management issues.
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Outline the role of forest health issues in the coastal or interior resource management.
- Illustrate the effects of past resource management decisions, fire exclusion for example, on current issues facing the industry.
- Describe the specific duties of the operation crew and the operations supervisor.
- Monitor production rates and management of production costs.
- Describe the engineering of operational harvesting and road building sites.
- Discuss the latest equipment preferences and trends in harvesting and road building, log transportation systems and truck configurations.
- Complete a harvesting audit to evaluate safety, environmental and production issues in a real production setting.
- Describe generic silviculture regimes and treatments used in coastal / interior environments.
- Identify coastal / interior sites and crop tree species and common silvicultural management problems that must be addressed.
- Assess stand attributes for inclusion in management plans or regulatory decisions.
- Apply inventory techniques specific to a coastal or interior field site consistent with the regulatory framework.
Effective as of Fall 2009
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