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SG0230

Silviculture, Forest Management Planning and Forest Health

In this course you will learn about standdynamics in evenaged and unevenaged stands, effect of silvicultural measures on growth and developement of trees and stands and how these measures can be designed to achieve certain goals. Exercises and excursions in the field will give you knowledge and skills in natural regeneration, plant production in nurseries, single-tree selection, stand inventory, assessment of forest damage, etc. During the course you will also complete a forest management plan for a small forest estate. This work includes meeting with the forest owner, field inventory, analysis of the forest condition, and suggestion for the management for the coming 10 years. You will during the course develop your knowledge and skills in forest damage assessment and damage agents, both biotic (insects, fungi, wildlife) and abiotic (wind, snow, fire, etc.), and how they can be affected by silviculture and forest management planning.

Information from the course leader

Welcome to course!

Because of Corona the course will partly be based on distance teaching regarding lectures and presentations. In the schedule you can see when you have to be in Umeå. The first day at campus will be Wednesday september 8. Field excursions, computer exercises and inventory for the Forest Management Plan ( field week 21/9 to 24/9) will be done in smaller groups and campus based.

The course starts at monday 30/8 at 9:15 on Zoom.

Meeting URL:

https://slu-se.zoom.us/j/64411314863

Meeting ID:

644 1131 4863

Passcode:

611712

Register on course as soon as possible. All information about schdule, exercises, litterature will be on Canvas.

About the Forest management Planning see email you recived about choice of forest estate.

Please contact us if you have questions. Looking forward to see you, both on zoom and in the field!

Torgny Lind torgny.lind@slu.se or Gustaf Egnell gustaf.egnell@slu.se

Course evaluation

The course evaluation is now closed

SG0230-10046 - Course evaluation report

Once the evaluation is closed, the course coordinator and student representative have 1 month to draft their comments. The comments will be published in the evaluation report.

Additional course evaluations for SG0230

Academic year 2022/2023

Silviculture, Forest Management Planning and Forest Health (SG0230-10238)

2022-08-29 - 2022-10-31

Academic year 2020/2021

Silviculture, Forest Management Planning and Forest Health (SG0230-10011)

2020-08-31 - 2020-11-01

Academic year 2019/2020

Silviculture, Forest Management Planning and Forest Health (SG0230-10020)

2019-09-02 - 2019-10-31

Academic year 2019/2020

Silviculture, Forest Management Planning and Forest Health (SG0230-10021)

2019-09-02 - 2019-10-31

Academic year 2018/2019

Silviculture, Forest Management Planning and Forest Health (SG0230-10097)

2018-09-03 - 2018-11-11

Syllabus and other information

Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: Yes The course is offered as a programme course: Forest Science - Master's Programme Tuition fee: Tuition fee only for non-EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens: 38054 SEK Cycle: Bachelor’s level (G2F)
Subject: Forest Science Forest science
Course code: SG0230 Application code: SLU-10046 Location: Umeå Distance course: No Language: English Responsible department: Department of Forest ecology and Management Pace: 100%