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Class Schedule |
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Week 1 |
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March 27 |
Course logistics, Forests as Ecosystems |
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March 29 |
Structural development of natural forests; the moist forest sere |
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March 30 |
Disturbances, biological legacies and early successional ecosystems |
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Week 2 |
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April 3 |
Reading assignment 1 due. |
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April 5 |
Forest Structure: Coarse Woody Debris; importance, dynamics, and functions |
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April 6 |
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Week 3 |
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April 10 |
Fundamentals of silviculture and forest parameters and measurements |
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April 12 |
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April 13-15 |
Olympic Peninsula Field Trip |
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Week 4 |
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April 17 |
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April 19 |
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April 20 |
Reading Response 2 due on Noss et al. 2006 |
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Week 5 |
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April 24 |
Northern Spotted Owls and importance of biological diversity |
Olympic Field Trip Report Due |
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April 26 |
History of the US Forest Service
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April 27 |
Landscape ecology and its importance in forest management |
1 page commentary on The Hidden Forest due |
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Week 6 |
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May 1 |
Review for midterm exam |
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May 3 |
Midterm examination |
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May 4 |
History of Federal and State forest lands and the legal basis for management |
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Week 7 |
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May 8 |
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May 10 |
Northwest Forest Plan |
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May 11 |
Northwest Forest Plan: Where are we now? |
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Week 8 |
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May 15 |
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May 17 |
Current policy issues: owls and restoration |
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May 18-20 |
Mt. St. Helens and Wind River Field Trip |
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Week 9 |
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May 22 |
Thinning moist forests to speed the development of complex structure |
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May 24 |
Restoring resilience and ecological function in dry forests |
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May 25 |
The Final Forest: Where we were then and where we are now |
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Week 10 |
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May 29 |
Challenges to forest conservation and management in the 21st century |
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May 31 |
Review |
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June 1 |
Second examination |
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