Forest Mgt and Silviculture for Loggers

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Class Topics

1. Forest Structure

• Measures of stand density
• Evaluating stand structure
• Crown classes and growth

2. Forest regeneration and growth

• Tree growth and form
• Stages of stand development
• Stand dynamics
• Oak regeneration
• Pine regeneration

3. Silviculture: Tending the forest

• What is silviculture?
• Silvicultural systems
• Regeneration and sources of reproduction
• Stocking
• Thinning

4. Harvesting: Management issues to consider

• Long-term vs. short term
• Maintaining tree quality
• Damage, root disease and insects
• Oak decline
• Shifting composition
• Maintaining diversity and species-site considerations

5. Field Tour of Sinkin Experimental Forests

• Even-aged management by clearcutting
• Even-aged Management by shelterwood
• Uneven-aged management
• Thinning
• Crown class and stand structure
• Oak and Pine regeneration
• Salvage harvest