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Forestry Field Camp

Analytical Thinking

Course Description

The forestry field camp is an off-campus field practicum for students majoring in forestry. Field skills will be demonstrated, practiced, and honed in the forest environment in the areas of applied silviculture, harvesting, and forest inventory. In addition, a series of visits to forest products manufacturing and utilization facilities will provide first-hand knowledge of pulp, paper, solid wood, and engineered forest products and the resources required for their manufacture.

Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
In addition to the requirements below, graduate students will be required to conduct an integrated forest resource inventory and write a report on the suitability of that inventory for meeting hypothetical management objectives for the property.

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Forestry Field Camp

Non-Traditional Format

The course will be offered over three weeks during the Maymester of summer session. It will meet eight hours per day from Monday-Friday. The course will be held in a field/forest location. There will be one hour of lecture per day (five hours per week) and six hours of field work per day (thirty per week).

Undergraduate Prerequisite

[(FANR 3000 and FANR 3000L) or (FORS 4050/6050 and FORS 4050L/6050L)] and [(FANR 3200W and FANR 3200L) or (ECOL 3500 and ECOL 3500L) or (ECOL 3505H and ECOL 3505L)]

Graduate Prerequisite

[(FANR 3000 and FANR 3000L) or (FORS 4050/6050 and FORS 4050L/6050L)] and [(FANR 3200W and FANR 3200L) or (ECOL 3500 and ECOL 3500L) or (ECOL 3505H and ECOL 3505L)]

Semester Course Offered

Offered summer semester every year.

Grading System

A - F (Traditional)

Student learning Outcomes

  • Students will be able to describe the relationship between landowners, forest management, timber harvesting, and forest products manufacturing.
  • Students will be able to enumerate differences in timber specifications, forest sampling techniques, harvesting practices, and products produced from the major categories of forest products (e.g., pulpwood, chip-n-saw, sawtimber, etc.).
  • Students will be able to evaluate the role of silviculture in resource management across a variety of land managers.

Topical Outline

  • Week 1 -- Applied Silviculture Soils, Sites, and Forest Types Even-aged Management Harvest/Regeneration systems Thinning and partial cutting Intensive management prescriptions Uneven-aged management Selection systems Regulation
  • Week 2 -- Forest Products and Utilization Pulp and Paper manufacturing Solid Products manufacturing Engineered wood products manufacturing Woodyard scaling Forest harvesting and thinning operations Other forest products and resources
  • Week 3 -- Forest Measurement and Inventory Timber cruising Fixed area plots Point sampling Other Resource Inventories

Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes

Analytical Thinking

The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.


Syllabus

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