ENV 688b () / 2024-2025

Forest Management and Operations

Credits: 4 Spring 2025: M,W, 2:30-3:50, Marsh Rotunda

This course will provide students with an opportunity to understand many aspects of forest management, especially as it relates to multiple use forestry. Course content will include understanding and critique of forest inventory, and students will be introduced to growth and yield concepts. Forest planning and optimization for objectives such as forest products and carbon will be covered. Stewardship of forestland will be discussed as will legal aspects to land ownership and forest conservation.
 
Included in this course is are sections focused on forest operations. Students will gain experience in the diverse elements and aspects of forest harvesting.  The course is taught from the perspective of what a forester should know about harvesting which includes logging safety, timber harvesting operations and sale administration, legal dimensions of harvesting, planning and maintaining forest access systems, timber procurement and appraisal, logging costs and analysis, and environmental and social influences.  Field experiences will compliment lecture material