Course ID: | FORS 7630. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Intensive Forest Management |
Course Description: | Effects of silvicultural treatments on growth, yield, and product distributions of forest stands. Effects of vegetation management at various points in the life of the stand, fertilization, thinning, pruning, and initial spacing included. Effect magnitude as an objective criterion for management decision making is emphasized. |
Oasis Title: | Intensive Forest Management |
Prerequisite: | FORS 4010/6010-4010L/6010L |
Semester Course Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | Provide graduate students in natural resource disciplines an in-depth understanding of intensive silvicultural practices and regimes for enhancing forest plantation productivity, product yields, and financial returns. |
Topical Outline: | Overview of intensive silviculture
Physiological basis of wood production
Biological potential productivity
Factors affecting response patterns
Genetic management
Planting stock, planting quality
Planting density management
Competing vegetation management
Soil management
Nutritional management
Thinning
Wood quality
Pests
Integrated regimes of southern pine
Hardwood plantations
Eucalypts is Brazil
Sustainability
Course summary |