FOR 600 Public Relations in Natural Resources 3(3,0) Identifying relevant policies, their characteristics and acceptance to natural resource management, and techniques of maintaining appropriate public relations. Preq: Senior standing.
FOR 613 Integrated Forest Pest Managment 4(3,3) Nature and control of pests of forest trees and products. Focuses on the relation of pests to silviculture, management, and natural forest ecosystems. Offered fall semester only. Preq: Junior standing in Forest Resource Management.
FOR 615 Forest Wildlife Management 3(2,3) Principles, practices, and problems of wildlife management with emphasis on upland forest game species. Habitat manipulation through use of appropriate silvicultural practices in association with other techniques is evaluated. Preq: FOR 460 or consent of instructor.
FOR (E N R) 616 Forest Policy and Administration 2(2,0) Introduction to development, principles, and legal provisions of forest policy in the United States and an examination of administrative and executive management in forestry.
FOR 617 Forest Resource Management and Regulation 3(3,0) Fundamental principles and analytical techniques in planning, management, and optimization of forest operations. Preq: FOR 302, 308, 418, 460.
FOR 618 Forest Resource Valuation 3(3,0) Analysis of capital investment tools and their application to decision making among forestry investment alternatives; valuation of land, timber, and other resources associated with forestry, including the impact of inflation and taxes. Preq: FOR 304 or consent of instructor.
FOR 621 Biology and Silviculture of Hardwood Forests 2(1,2) Study of the silvics, growth, and development of major hardwood species of North America that relates these biological characteristics to the ecology, silviculture, and utilization of the hardwood forests of the eastern United States. Offered fall semester only. Preq: FOR 460 or consent of instructor.
FOR 623 Current Issues in Natural Resources 2(2,0) Lectures in various fields of forestry delivered by selected representatives from forest industries, consultants, agencies, associations, and other forestry operations. Course will not be taught when enrollment is less than 15. To be taken Pass/Fail only. Offered fall semester only. Preq: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
FOR (HORT) 627 Urban Tree Care 3(3,0) Principles, practices, and problems of protecting and maintaining trees in urban and recreational areas. Examines environmental and biological factors affecting trees in high-use areas, their management and cultural requirements, and the practices necessary for their protection and care as valuable assets in the landscape. Preq: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
FOR 631 Recreation Resource Planning in Forest Management 2(1,3)
Analysis of forest recreation as a component of multiple-use forest management;
techniques of planning; physical and biological effects on forest environments;
and forest site, user, and facility management. Offered
spring semester of odd-numbered years only.
FOR 633 GPS Applications 3(2,3) Develops competence in global positioning system (GPS) technology including theory, methods, and application to natural resources mapping. Topics include basic concepts of GPS; projection systems; types of data; mission planning; and data capture, correction, and export to geographical information systems (GIS). Preq: Senior standing or consent of instructor.
FOR (E N R) 634 Geographic Information Systems for Landscape Planning 3(2,3) Develops competence in geographic information systems (GIS) technology and its application to various spatial analysis problems in landscape planning. Topics include data development and management, spatial analysis techniques, critical review of GIS applications, needs analysis and institutional context. GIS hardware and software, hands-on application. Credit may be received for only one of C R P 434, FOR (E N R) 434.
FOR 641 Properties of Wood Products 3(3,0) Basic properties of wood including the hygroscopic, thermal, electrical, mechanical, and chemical properties; standard testing procedures for wood. Preq: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
FOR 642 Manufacture of Wood Products 3(3,0) Manufacture of lumber, plywood, poles, piles; drying, preservation, grading, and uses of wood products. Manufacture of particleboard, flakeboard, oriented-strand board, fiberboard, and paper products. Includes physical, mechanical, and chemical properties and their applications. Preq: Consent of instructor.
FOR 644 Forest Products Marketing and International Trade 3(3,0) Study of marketing and international trade practices currently employed by the forest products industry and the application of basic marketing principles and global trade concepts in the industry's current and future environment. Preq: FOR 442 or consent of instructor.
FOR 650 Woody Plant Stress Physiology 3(3,0) Structure, function, and physiology of tree shoot and crown growth, wood formation, diameter growth, root growth, and reproduction especially as related to stress factors. Preq: BIOSC 401 or FOR 460 or consent of instructor.
FOR (EE&S, B E) 651 Newman Seminar and Lecture Series in Natural Resources Engineering 1(0,2) See B E 651.
FOR 665 Silviculture 4(3,3) Discussion of the theory and practice of manipulating forests to meet the needs and values of landowners and society in accordances with biological, ecological, and economic principles. Preq: FOR 206 and Forestry Summer Camp or consent of instructor.
FOR 707 Special Problems in Forestry 1-3(1-3,0) Directed individual study of a special problem in an applied field of forestry. Written report of study results is required.
FOR 802 Advanced Mensuration 3(2,3) Specialized sampling techniques
and statistical methods often required only in forestry; compilation of
tim
ber volume tables; forest survey problems. Offered spring semester
of even-numbered years only. Preq: EX ST 301 or consent of instructor.
FOR 804 Advanced Forest Economics 3(2,3) Examination, discussion, and application of economic principles to forestry problems in use of land, labor, and capital; use of theory in problems of resource allocation and efficiency in forest management. Offered fall semester of even-numbered years only. Preq: FOR 304 and 418 or consent of instructor.
FOR 805 Forest Landscape Ecosystems 4(3,3) Three basic landscape components of soils, landform, and vegetation; their interrelationships in forest ecosystems; factors and processes of soils as interacting components with landform and vegetation. Offered fall semester of even-numbered years only. Preq: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
FOR 806 Advanced SilvicultureForest Tree Growth and Development 3(3,0) Growth and development of economically important forest tree species; structure, function, phenology, and wood formation related under forest stand conditions emphasizing manipulation of forest tree growth by cultural practice; current research in growth and culture of forest trees and stands. Offered fall semester of odd-numbered years only. Preq: BIOSC 401, 402; or consent of instructor.
FOR 807 Special Problems in Forestry 1-12 Special problems in forestry research methods that do not directly pertain to the candidate's thesis.
FOR 808 Seminar 1(1,0) Research and current developments in forestry. Students and staff participate. May be taken up to two semesters for credit. To be taken Pass/Fail only.
FOR 809 Products Biodeterioration 2(1,3) Role of microorganisms in reducing the strength, aesthetics, and value of products in service emphasizing the deterioration of wood. Offered fall semester of even-numbered years only.
FOR 811 Forest Wetland Ecology and Management 2(2,0) Assessment of ecological processes and how they influence forest wetland productivity, management, and regulation. Offered spring semester only. Preq: Introductory ecology or consent of instructor.
FOR 812 Fire Ecology and Management 3(2,3) Historical presence of fire in various regions of North America and its effects on forests; analysis of current fire management strategies with emphasis on usage of prescribed fire as an ecosystem management tool. Preq: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
FOR 814 Advanced Forest Resource Management and Planning 3(3,0) Current forest resource management and planning topics; operational emphasis on application of various quantitative tools to solve economic and management problems; advanced topics in forest regulation, forest valuation, mathematical programming and harvest scheduling, simulation, multiple-use alternatives, and selected areas. Offered spring semester of odd-numbered years only. Preq: FOR 417 or consent of instructor.
FOR 815 Systems Processes in Natural Resources 3(2,3) Use of system thinking and system analysis to define the issues, model, simulate, and evaluate alternatives for forest landscape problems and
FOR (PRTM) 816 Remote Sensing and GIS in Natural Resources 3(2,3) Practical application of computer mapping, spatial analysis, and natural resource inventory using remote sensing and geographical information systems. Offered spring semester of odd-numbered years only. Preq: FOR (E N R) 434 or consent of instructor.
FOR 845 Biodiversity in Managed Forests 3(2,3) Theory and practice of maintaining biodiversity are fundamental to sucessful managment of forests. Conservation of biodiversity is viewed from the macro (landscape) and micro (stand) levels. Socioeconomic and policy as well as ecological perspectives are considered in design of appropriate management practices. Preq: FOR 415, 460, or consent of instructor.
FOR 891 Master's Thesis Research 1-12
FOR 893 Selected Topics in Forest Resources 1-4(0-4,0-12) Specialized topics not covered in other courses which explore current areas of research and management in forest and natural resources in a format of lecture, lab, or both. May be repeated for a maximum of eight credits, but only if different topics are covered. Preq: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
FOR 991 Doctoral Dissertation Research 1-12