Course Overview
Integrated Vegetation Management will address management strategies and treatment methods to achieve desired, stable, natural vegetation communities in B.C. Treatments studied will include site preparation, regeneration, brushing and weeding, cleaning, and thinning. Strategies will be designed to cost-effectively and with minimal undesirable environmental impact achieve desired species composition and dominance. Strategies may also be designed to conserve biodiversity, control invasive species, minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire, promote windfirmness and maintain pleasing appearance. Case studies will be employed to convey as much of the material as possible. Students will be required to prepare a treatment regime for a specific site and set of objectives.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- With the aid of reference material, present plausible predictions of secondary succession pathways for specific sites including: species composition, structural stage sequence, and community replacement.
- Evaluate alternative treatments in terms of cost / effectiveness and compatibility with objectives and constraints.
- Design integrated vegetation management strategies (treatment regimes) for specified sites and objectives to promote stable vegetation communities dominated by desired species.
- Write site plans that describe the site, objectives and constraints and specify treatments in enough detail that they can be implemented and evaluated.
Effective as of Fall 2009
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