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
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.