Course Overview
This course is most relevant for arborists and urban foresters interested in the assessment of healthy conifers to be retained in greenbelts, parks or newly cleared subdivisions. The course covers the principles of windthrow, windthrow modelling and demonstrations of how to use a variety of tools to assess windthrow risk at the tree, stand and landscape level. Methods of quantifying the component forces of wind on individual trees are used to evaluate the relative effectiveness of windfirming treatments such as crown modification and retention patch design.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
0.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion the student will be able to:
- Describe wind as a natural disturbance agent and review potential impacts of windthrow in managed and urban forests.
- Describe the concepts necessary for assessing windthrow risk at the tree and stand level.
- Choose tools for predicting tree and stand-level risk
- Demonstrate how the above tools can be used to evaluate windthrow risk factors in urban forestry.
- Use WINDCALC to assemble tree and stand-level factors to understand and quantify the component forces related to the mechanics of windthrow for individual trees.
- Review methods of windfirming individual trees and tree aggregates and use WINDCALC to model the effectiveness of modification techniques.
Effective as of Winter 2008
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