Sustainable Forestry - Fall 2000

Program Syllabus (9/25/00)

 

Offering: Full-time (16 credit/quarter) Fall, Winter, Spring Coordinated Study

Faculty: Gabriel Tucker (Lab I 2005, x6739), Nobuya Suzuki (Lab I 2015 x5493)

Office Hours: By appointment

Maximum Enrollment: 52

Program Description (as see in college catalog):

 

Sustainable forestry is a land management system, which puts the enhancement and maintenance of a fully-functioning forest ecosystem in a position of overriding importance. Such an approach allows for an economically viable harvest of a modest, but significant, amount of wood and non-timber forest products while improving or maintaining wildlife habitat, particularly for birds and anadromous fish. This program will address the potential of using a portion of the Evergreen campus adjacent to the Organic Farm as an ongoing site where students can experience and take part in sustainable forestry.

 

          Forest ecosystem analysis and management will be presented with a focus on the individual forest or stand-level with strong consideration also for landscape-level issues. Critical readings will be drawn from literature on basic vertebrate zoology, conservation biology, applied forest ecology or silviculture and community or social science perspectives on resource management. Throughout the program, every effort will be made to include the perspectives of American Indians on natural resource management.

 

          Throughout the year, students will participate in seminars on assigned readings, lecture/discussion sessions, field and computer labs and extensive group projects. Early in fall quarter we will take an extended field trip throughout the Pacific Northwest to visit a variety of different forestland managers and experimental forests including the H. J.

 Andrews Experimental Forest in the central Oregon Cascades. We will then return to campus to collect and analyze data on a variety of different environmental variables. During winter quarter, students will develop a land management plan that will be presented for review by the campus community and third-party certification under the

Rain Forest Alliance’s SmartWood program. In the spring quarter, students will implement some portion of the land management plan which may include, for example, marking a stand for thinning and writing and administering a contract with a horse-logging contractor. There will also be springtime opportunities for related internships and

independent study.

 

Weekly class Schedule:

Mondays and Fridays, independent group projects and occasional field trips:

Tuesdays, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Lecture/Discussion, Lab I , Rm. 1047

Tuesdays, 12:30 PM to 2:30, Program Synthesis, , Lab I , Rm. 1047

Wednesdays, 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM or 10:00AM to 12:00 noon, Lab I 3046 or CAL

Thursdays, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Lecture/Discussion, Lecture Hall 4

Thursdays, 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM (except 11/9 in week 7 see below), Seminar Group 1, Lab I 1051 or Group 2, Lab II 2211

 

Additional Community Outreach Events:

Periodically throughout the year, events will be scheduled to seek input and inform college and neighborhood community members regarding sustainable forestry.  These events could be public meetings, evening potluck dinners, or presentations such as the film festival scheduled in week one.  These events will be scheduled as far in advance as possible and the expectation is that all program members will participate.