Forestry Courses

FORESTRY Advanced Sensory - Instrumental Analyses (3).

FOREST 7301 Topics in Forestry (cr.arr.).

Organized study of selected topics. Intended for upper-division and graduate students. Subjects and credit may vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

FOREST 7320 Forest Ecology (5).

Principles of community, ecosystem, and population ecology and examination of the influence of environmental factors and human activity on forest dynamics, composition, structure and function. Prerequisites: graduate standing FOREST 2151 or BIO SC 3210 or instructor's consent.

FOREST 7330 Practice of Silviculture (3).

Applied ecological principles, cultural practices, tree improvement techniques and treatments to forest stands and other lands for systematic production of goods and services. Prerequisite: graduate standing and FOREST 4320.

FOREST 7340 Tree Physiology (3).

Lectures on physical and chemical phenomena involved in the functions and activities of trees. Prerequisites: graduate standing BIOCHM 2110; BIO SC 1200; CHEM 1100; or instructor's consent.

FOREST 7350 Forest Economics (3).

Economic principles applied to production/marketing of goods and services from forest land: emphasizes capital and land factors and investment alternatives related to time. Prerequisites: graduate standing and Mathematics requirement completed; AG EC 1041, or 3080.

FOREST 7360 Forest Information Systems (3).

Applied course in the area of aerial photogrammetry, forest inventory, and simple GIS applications for developing, maintaining, and utilizing these tools in a forest management. Prerequisite: graduate standing and NAT R 1080 or instructor's consent.

FOREST 7365 Logging Systems: Operations and Analyses (3).

A systems approach to timber harvesting from acquisition through engineering to log transport. Regional aspects and influences will be considered. Prerequisites: graduate standing and FOREST 2543 and 2544.

FOREST 7370 Wildland Fire Management (3).

Management, administration, and organization of wildland and prescribed fires and other natural and manmade disasters. Emphasis placed on organizational arrangements of incidents rather than on either strategy or tactics. Prerequisites: graduate standing and FOREST 3207 or equivalent.

FOREST 7375 Forest Stand Dynamics (3).

Examines the development of forest structure, the role of disturbance on forest change and the use of this knowledge in applying silvicultural systems. Both forest stand dynamics theories, structure diagrams, forest growth models, and long term data sets are used to understand stand dynamics. Prerequisite: graduate standing and FOREST 4330 or instructor's consent.

FOREST 7380 Forest Resource Management (3).

Teaches resource managers how to develop a plan for the management of forest resources using managerial, economic, silvical and wildlife techniques for its enhancement and to meet the landowner's objectives. Prerequisites: graduate standing and FOREST 4330 and 4350.

FOREST 7385 Agroforestry I: Theory, Practice and Adoption (4).

Understand biophysical, ecological social and economic features of temperate and tropical agroforestry. Covers the basics of design, planning and implementation of agroforestry practices. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

FOREST 7390 Watershed Management and Water Quality (3).

Hydrologic processes on wildland watersheds. Effects of forest land management on streamflow, erosion and water quality. Prerequisites: graduate standing and FOREST 2541 or instructor's consent.

FOREST 8050 Research in Forestry (cr.arr.).

Original research not leading to preparation of dissertation.

FOREST 8090 Masters Thesis Research in Forestry (1-10).

Original investigation for presentation in a M.S. thesis. Graded on a S/U basis only.

FOREST 8401 Topics in Forestry (cr.arr.).

Organized study of selected topics. Subjects and credit may vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: instructor's consent.

FOREST 8430 Applied Silviculture (3).

Ecological and economic factors affecting application of silviculture in each of eighteen forest regions in United States. Prerequisite: FOREST 4330.

FOREST 8440 Low Temperature Physiology of Plants (3).

Physiologic bases of resistance and adaptation of plants to chilling and freezing temperatures. Graded on A/F basis only.

FOREST 8450 Forest Soils (3).

Physical, chemical and biological properties of forest soils in relation to tree growth. Prerequisites: FOREST 4330 or instructor's consent.

FOREST 8460 Advanced Forest Ecology (3).

Lecture/discussion based course emphasizing contemporary and classic ecological studies and concepts in the context of current forest ecology issues and research. Prerequisite: undergraduate ecology course

FOREST 8490 Advanced Forest Management (3).

Modern quantitative methods to facilitate decision-making in harvest scheduling and regulation, land use allocation, and production planning in natural resource management. Prerequisite: FOREST 4380.

FOREST 8515 Ecological Modeling (3).

An introduction to the topics and philosophy of ecological modeling. The course will guide you through the process of developing a conceptual model, formalizing the model, formulating, parameterizing, and running the model as well as analyzing the results. Prerequisites: graduate standing or instructor's consent.

FOREST 8520 Social Forestry (3).

Issues with using forestry as an international development tool; planning, implementing and evaluating farm and community forestry projects. Prerequisite: FOREST 4350, or AG EC 3270, or equivalent and instructor's consent.

FOREST 8530 Ecosystem Management: The Human Dimension (3).

Overview of cultural, social, political and economic dimensions of natural resource problems and issues from an ecologically grounded management perspective. Prerequisite: NAT R 4353 or equivalent.

FOREST 8540 Tree Growth-Quality Relationships (3).

Response of tree growth (wood formation) to such environmental influences fertilization, moisture, nutrient supply, wounding pruning, etc.

FOREST 8620 Plant-Water Relations (3).

Absorption, translocation, utilization and loss of water by plants . Biophysics of water movement in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Effects of water deficits on physiological processes.

FOREST 8625 Plant-Water Relations Laboratory (2).

Introduction to techniques and instrumentation used in studies of plant-water relations. Corequisite: FOREST 8620.

FOREST 9087 Seminar in Forestry (1).

Discussions of current developments in Forestry, and critical study of research programs.

FOREST 9090 Dissertation Research in Forestry (1-10).

Original investigation for presentation in a doctoral dissertation. Graded on a S/U basis only.

FOREST 9410 Seminar in Forestry (1).

Discussions of current developments in Forestry, and critical study of research programs.