FORE624-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012

Plantation Silviculture

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2012
End Date: Sunday, 24 June 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 4 March 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 20 May 2012

Description

In-depth coverage of all aspects of plantation silviculture from seed production through to harvesting impacts, with emphasis on decision-making.

To understand the principles and tools associated with decision-making in plantations at a stand level, and to develop an in-depth knowledge of a specific aspect of silviculture.

Topics covered can include:
• site quality, genetics and management; pre-harvest inventory, log grades and recovery
• discounted cash flow and costs of operations
• species choice, tree breeding, stand-level modeling
• rotation length, product quality and risk
• stocking, thinning, pruning, tending, silvicultural regimes
• plantation establishment, nursery systems, site manipulation, fertilization, decision-support systems
• forest protection

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Course Coordinator

Euan Mason

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,757.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Forestry .

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