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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Factors affecting distribution, perpetuation, and health of California's forests and woodlands. Field identification of northern California trees and shrubs. [Prereq: completed area B lower division GE. Weekly: 2 hrs lect, weekend field trips in northern California. GE.]
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4.00 Credits
Sampling techniques in forest inventory, timber cruising, and site index determination. Develop volume tables and predict stand growth. Use growth models and computer applications. [Prereq: FOR 210, 230 (C); BIOM 109. Weekly: 3 hrs lect, 3 hrs lab.]
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3.00 Credits
Direct and indirect leveling, solar observation, transit traverse, public land survey, triangulation. Plot and draft field data; determine areas; read and construct topographic maps. [Prereq: computer skills, FOR 210. Weekly: 2 hrs lect, 3 hrs lab.]
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3.00 Credits
Managing forest-covered landscapes to meet a variety of objectives by applying economic, sociological, ecological, silvicultural, and operational principles. Nonmajors only. [Weekly: 2 hrs lect, 3 hrs lab.]
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3.00 Credits
Fire as an ecosystem and physical process. Fire history, fire effects, fire regimes; interactions with abiotic and biotic ecosystem components; managing fire in California bioregions. [Prereq: Course in Ecology or IA. Weekly: 2 hrs lect, 3 hrs lab.]
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3.00 Credits
Effects of weather, topography, and fuels on fire behavior. Fire effects on fuels and smoke. Fire behavior models, prevention, suppression planning, control tactics, incident command system, wildland fire situation analysis. [Prereq: FOR 220 (C) or IA.]
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4.00 Credits
Woody plant interaction with environmental stresses. Factors influencing vigor and growth. Changes to stand structure caused by humans (thinning, harvesting, fertilization), nature (wind, soil, climate) or time. Selection using genetic principles for improved growth. Seedling production methods in stock types in relation to their effect on morphology/survival. [Prereq: FOR 231, BIOM 109, SOIL 260. Weekly: 3 hrs lect, 3 hrs lab.]
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3.00 Credits
Principles/ practices of tree improvement. Obtaining genetically better trees for forest reproduction. Prereq: FOR 331, BIOM 109. Weekly: 2 hrs lect, 3 hrs lab.
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3.00 Credits
Road design procedures, standards, and techniques for forest management. Reconnaissance, route surveying, office and field design and location, geometrics, drainage systems, soil engineering, construction sequencing and techniques, erosion control, maintenance. [Prereq: FOR 216, SOIL 260. Weekly: 2 hrs lect, 3 hrs lab.]
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4.00 Credits
Harvesting systems and methods, including operating characteristics and environmental impacts. Wood anatomy, utility, and processing. Wood as biological material and structural member. [Prereq: FOR 210, 216, 231. Weekly: 3 hrs lect, 3 hrs lab.]
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